Uruguayan Jewelry & Watches

Loose Amethysts Weight: 24.50 Carats Dimension: 24 x 16 x 11 Mm Colour: Purple Origin: Brazil Treatment: Non Certificate: On Demand Shape: Emerald Amethyst, a stunning variety of ...

Modernist sculptural piece designed by Carlos Páez Vilaró (1926-2014) Magnificent sculptural piece of jewelry, created in Montevideo Uruguay by the plastic artist and sculptor Carlos Páez Vilaró, back in the 1967. This gorgeous piece of art has been crafted in solid yellow gold of 18 karats, with textured surfaces finishes and embellished with accents of red, orange and white glass enamel. It is fitted at the reverse with a hinged double pins bars to wear as a brooch or a pendant. Weight: 52.25 Grams, (34.51 Dwt). Measurements: 95.25 mm by 69.85 mm (3.75 x 2.75 Inches). Hallmarks: Stamped with the maker's mark, the mark for the assay of the gold and signed in full by the artist, "CARLOS PEREZ VILARO 67". Carlos Páez Vilaró He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1923. He was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor. He took up drawing in 1939 and relocated to Buenos Aires, where he worked as a printing apprentice in the industrial Barracas section of the Argentine capital. Returning to Montevideo in the late 1940s, he developed an interest in Afro-Uruguayan culture. Settling in Montevideo's primarily black neighborhood of "Mediomundo" ("Half-World"), he studied the Candombé and Comparsa dances characteristic to the culture. He composed numerous musical pieces in the two genres and conducted an orchestra. His group's congas and bongos were decorated with their leader's own thematic drawings, as well. His interest in the culture later led him to Brazil, home to the western hemisphere's largest population of African descent. Páez Vilaró was invited to exhibit some of this work by the Director of the Modern Art Museum of Paris, Jean Cassou, in 1956. He traveled to Dakar, Senegal, later that year – his first visit to Africa. He was one of the "Grupo de los 8", a movement of Uruguayan art...

Description: Gem Type: Amethyst Number of Stones: 1 Weight: 12 cts Measurements: 14.77 x 14.79 x 9.76 mm Shape: Square Cushion Cutting Style: Cutting Style Crown: Brilliant Cut Cutt...

This lovely lion figurine was hand carved and decorated with platinum and gold by the Rinconada artists in Uruguay. It is part of the Silver Anniversary Collection #709 and is now re...

Retro gold and diamond earrings, circa 1940. The hand fabricated designs center upon a single flower motif set with a small round diam...

H: 3 cm (1.18 in)  W: 17.2 cm (6.77 in). Cozzolino worked in Naples, Italy & Montevideo, Uruguay, His unique jewels were wonderful.