Ring - Mexico (No reserve price)

925 silver ring. It has a slightly hammered / satinished and patinated finish that is often found on Taxco Mexican rings from the 1970s-1980s. Wear and small scratches are visible, a sign that it's not a new production. In the center there is a small cupped depression, typical of brutalist rings. Four inlays of natural malachite. You can tell from the irregular light green/dark green concentric bands that are the signature of real malachite. It's not enamel; it's cut stone set flush. The cut is geometric: two trapezoidal pieces on top and bottom and two rectangular ones at the sides, forming a kind of square frame around the central cup. It was a very popular design in 1970s modernism.