Gold, Cloisonné, and Gem-Set Earrings, Colette

The gold dangle earrings with engravings, one centered on cloisonné enamel with bezel set tourmaline, the other centered on a parti-colored tourmaline, and with bezel set tourmaline, signed and numbered #14, XRF testing 20KT.

2.5 in.

10.7 dwt.

From the Collection of Francine Pilloff, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Accompanied by an artist book, a receipt from William Zimmer Gallery dated 3/15/96, an an artist biography dated 2/12/96.

Colette (born 1937, Oakland, California) is a self-taught artist working in jewelry, oil and alkyd on canvas, sculpture, and cloisonné enameling since the early 1970s. In the late 1980s she developed cloisonné abstractions she calls “ideograms” and “pictograms,” often incorporating abstract animal imagery and calligraphic symbols. She earned a California State teaching credential in 1977, served as a trustee of the American Craft Council from 1986 to 1990, and was appointed Trustee Emeritus in 1998. Her work has been exhibited widely and is held by The Oakland Museum of California, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington), the Royal Ontario Museum (Ontario, Canada), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Good estate condition.

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