Auction: Fine Jewelry - 2510Location: BostonDate / Time: June 15, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
Artist-designed Silver and Brass Ring, Peter Macchiarini, mid to late 1940s, the wave motif with bronze accents, size 7 1/2, signed MACC, with original Fifty-50 box, (sized).
Note: Macchiarini (1907-2001) trained in Europe as a sculptor in the 1920s, and returned to his native state of California to work as a stone carver, sculptor, and self-taught jeweler. Many of his first pieces of jewelry were made from silver and display a constructivist interest in internal structure and layering.
Estimate $1,000-1,500