Designer "Sigi Tasco" Sigi Pineda Taxco Mexico Sterling Silver Abstract Modernist 3D Brooch Circa 1960's

Measures 2.25"L x 1"W (5.72cm x 2.54cm)

Hallmarks: Sigi Tasco Eagle 36 #357

Weight: 7.7g

Fantastic work of art by the renowned Sigi Pineda. Looks like a 3-D abstract modernist take on a fern leaf or feather. Purposefully oxidized in the recessed part of the face for added warmth and depth. It has been professionally buff and polished and is in like new condition! Included with purchase is a silver plated converter so it can be worn as a pendant on a necklace if preferred.

Mannequin is a life-size torso representation

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  before opening his own shop, Plateros, in 1952. 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