Designer Sigi Pineda Taxco Modernist Sterling & Enamel Dangle Earrings Circa 1960's

Measures 1.25" L x 1" W (3.18cm x 2.54cm)

Hallmarks: Sigi Eagle 96 (Partial marks faded)

Weight: 11.1g

Fantastic earrings by the renowned Sigi Pineda. Sterling and black textured enamel modernist snake? animal? drop dangle style earrings featuring their original wire hooks. They have recently been professionally polished and look fantastic and the enamel is fully intact, shiny and bright.

Sigfrido Pineda (1929-). The long career of award winning Sigfrido Pineda began as a pre-teenager when be spent three years working at Los Castillo . He is cousin to Los Castillo -founder Antonio Castillo. Pineda then worked with Salvador Terán in 1945 in the city of Puebla, and then with Felipe Martínez at Piedra y Plata . He eventually became head of the enameling workshop at Margot de Taxco in 1949 78 before opening his own shop, Plateros, in 1952. 79 The shop was later renamed Sigi. Sigi items stamped with eagle 16 likely were marked at Margot’s to whom eagle 16 was assigned. Pineda’s work reflects great design flow and very creative use of dimension. Sigi was listed in the magazine This is Mexico as “fine silver” shop. 80 Some of the work by Sigfrido Pineda is marked with an inventory or a design number. Silver, enamel work. Mark : Sigi (script). Eagle number: 2, 3, 16, 25, 34, 35, 36, 95, 96. - Courtesy of Bille Hougart's Mexican Silver Hallmarks Book.