Chimney Butte Cluster Pendant, Six Kingman Turquoise Stones, Navajo Sterling
A cluster pendant by Chimney Butte set with six Kingman turquoise cabochons in deep blue, separated by applied silver drops.
Specifications
- Metal: Sterling silver
- Artist: Chimney Butte (Navajo)
- Made: 2026
- Stone: Kingman turquoise, cabochon
- Length with bail: 3.4 inches (8.6 cm)
- Pendant drop: 2.5 inches (6.3 cm)
- Width at the widest point: 2 inches (5.1 cm)
- Weight: 74 grams
- Bail opening: 17.5 mm
Hallmarks
- Chimney Butte, script maker's stamp
- Sterling
Both marks are struck on the back. The Chimney Butte stamp is the maker's mark; Sterling is the silver standard.
About the Piece
Six stones fitted around each other rather than laid out on a grid, each one a slightly different shape and each cut to sit against its neighbours. Applied silver balls of three different sizes fill the gaps. That is what cluster work is: the arrangement is worked out stone by stone at the bench.
The colour here is deep and even, a strong blue with dark matrix flecking rather than heavy veining, and all six stones read as a set.
The bail is unusually wide and carries its own stamping in two bands, so it works as part of the design rather than a fitting. It will take a heavy chain.
Kingman is one of the oldest and best known Arizona mines, still producing, known for clean bright blue with dark matrix.
Chimney Butte is a Navajo (Dine) silversmith working out of New Mexico in a deliberately old style idiom: heavy gauge sterling, deep hand stamping, repousse, sandcast work, and good named mine turquoise. The mark is one of the most recognisable in contemporary Southwestern silver, which is part of why the work holds its value. Every piece is stamped Chimney Butte and Sterling on the back.
Styling
It hangs from a wide stamped bail that takes a heavy chain, so it will sit on Navajo pearls, a thick box chain, or a leather cord without looking under hung. Worn alone it does all the work; it does not need layering.
Condition
Excellent. Newly made and unworn, with the deep oxidised finish the maker applies to the stamped recesses.
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