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Three silver projections arranged into a triangle, bound by a band of obsidian, give these earrings a compact, almost sculptural geometry. The black obsidian closes the form and supplies the contrast, the silver projections doing the structural work.
Obsidian was a native material Spratling used throughout his jewelry, and the triangular, abstracted composition belongs to the Third Design Period (1951-1967), when his vocabulary of clean geometric form and inset native stone was fully settled (Morrill, p. 73).
The earrings are recorded in Penny Morrill's Maestros de Plata.
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