Vintage Oaxacan Silver Filigree Necklace with Coral — Antique Mexican Jewelry circa 1980 Handicrafts The cool turquoise stones provide

The cool turquoise stones provide a striking contrast against the lustrous silver

Worn as a necklace on a 20-inch chain

Spondylus shell harvested from the Gulf of California

working within the Tewa Native American jewelry tradition

1940s Taxco silver — the era collectors actually pay for

Vintage Oaxacan Silver Filigree Necklace with Coral — Antique Mexican Jewelry circa 1980 Handicrafts The cool turquoise stones provideSourced from a private Oaxacan collection. There is no second one. The silversmith who made this necklace in Oaxaca during the 1980s was working in a tradition that had already survived five centuries. His method hand coiling silver wire into floral chains, setting natural coral at the centerpiece required the kind of sustained attention that almost no working artisan today is willing to commit to a single piece. This necklace spent decades in a