{"product_id":"silver-and-sleeping-beauty-turquoise-nugget-necklace-santo-domingo","title":"Silver and Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Nugget Necklace Santo Domingo","description":"\u003cp dir=\"auto\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eOur Silver and Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Nugget Necklace Santo Domingo carries a story that extends far beyond its extraordinary color. Handmade by a skilled female Santo Domingo Pueblo artisan, this necklace was created using vintage Sleeping Beauty turquoise beads preserved in the collections of her mother and grandmother. Graduated from smaller stones toward substantial free-form nuggets at the center, the turquoise is punctuated by polished silver beads and finished with silver elements and chain. The result is wonderfully sculptural: brilliant Southwestern blue shaped by generations of material, memory, and craftsmanship.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eSleeping Beauty turquoise comes from the famed mine near Globe, Arizona, celebrated for its intensely clear sky and robin’s-egg blue. Turquoise production there ended in 2012, making genuine Sleeping Beauty dependent upon material mined years ago and carefully held in private collections and old inventories. Substantial nugget-style beads are particularly special. Their generous, irregular forms require considerably more turquoise than thin beads or small cabochons, and shaping them means preserving enough material to retain their wonderful weight and individuality. Finding a beautifully coordinated group of vintage Sleeping Beauty nuggets today is therefore increasingly difficult.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe apparent simplicity of the necklace disguises an enormous amount of handwork. Each nugget has been individually drilled, shaped, smoothed, and polished while retaining an organic silhouette rather than being forced into mechanical uniformity. Tiny silver beads between the turquoise create rhythm and allow each stone its own space. Their differences in contour, matrix, and scale are not imperfections; they are evidence of natural material worked by human hands. Most meaningful of all is their provenance—the turquoise was treasured before this necklace existed, passed from the artisan’s grandmother and mother into her own hands and ultimately transformed into something new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eFor Jean Marie, that continuity makes the necklace particularly moving. Her love of Native American jewelry began as a child, traveling with her mother, Philomena, and visiting the Pueblos and reservations of Arizona and New Mexico, where she developed an enduring appreciation for Native artistry and handcraft. Today, Jean Marie loves patronizing Native artisans and seeking out pieces in which the story of the maker is inseparable from the materials themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eOne of a kind and impossible to reproduce exactly, this necklace brings together vintage Sleeping Beauty turquoise, three generations of an artisan family, and the enduring beauty of something made slowly, personally, and by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLength 22.5\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in New Mexico, USA\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PAX PHILOMENA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55708157968703,"sku":"SILVERSLEEPINGBEAUTYTURQUOISENUGGET","price":1395.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2529\/6354\/files\/Silver_and_Sleeping_Beauty_Turquoise_Nugget_Necklace_Santo_Domingo.png?v=1790278094","url":"https:\/\/paxphilomena.com\/products\/silver-and-sleeping-beauty-turquoise-nugget-necklace-santo-domingo","provider":"PAX PHILOMENA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}