Oaxacan Sterling Silver Earrings with Pearls — Federico Style, Handcrafted Mexican Jewelry statement Style

Oaxacan Sterling Silver Earrings with Pearls — Federico Style, Handcrafted Mexican Jewelry statement StyleHold a pair of these Oaxacan earrings and you are holding the entire history of a city's relationship with silver. These earrings are made in the tradition known as "Federico style" a design language associated with the Oaxacan silver workshops that define the city's contemporary jewelry identity. The sterling silver detailing is intricate and distinctly Oaxacan: layered, architectural, finished with pearls that bring warmth to the cool bright metal.

circa 1960

has been produced for generations

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Style: Traditional Purepecha striped rebozo

Origin: Mexico

Each spiny oyster stone is hand-set in a handmade silver bezel

where the craft had to be good enough to compete in foreign markets that knew what quality looked like

About this piece

At 76 inches long and 30 inches wide

Filigrana oaxaqueña arrived in Oaxaca via Spanish silversmiths in the 1500s and was absorbed into local craft tradition so completely that it became one of the city's defining art forms

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not silver-plated or cast