Jeronimo Fuentes vintage silver jewelry

Jeronimo Fuentes vintage silver jewelry
The renowned Taxco silversmith Jerónimo Fuentes created unique artistic silver jewellery with the use of guilloche enamel in the 1950s-70s. Fuentes was a pupil of American-born silver designer and artist William Spratling (1900-1967), having received his knowledge at the famous studio Taller de las Delicias. After completing his studies, he began his career at the Margot de Taxco studio, where he became its lead master (in 1952). Thanks to Margot van Voorhies Carr (1896-1985), the founder of the workshop, he mastered the “language of enamel on silver”, bringing to life any of Margot’s jewelry fantasies. However, in 1961, Fuentes opened his own workshop, where he began to make funny silver jewelry with multicolored enamel. After the closure of her studio in 1974, Margot allowed Fuentes to use her designs, but the artist chose to go his own way.
Traditionally, the markings on his products include HECHO EN MEXICO, STERLING, Silhouette-eagle and stylized JF, for Jeronimo Fuentes.

Jeronimo Fuentes vintage silver jewelry