Description
1950's Estela Popowski Modernistic Mexican Silver Mixed Metal/Onyx Brooch. 2<br>9/16" tall x 1.75" wide in great vintage condition.<br>Popowski was a jewish immigrant who moved to Mexico in the 1950s. She lived and<br>worked in Taxco in the 1950s to early 1960s and designed jewelry for Los<br>Castillo, Antonio Pineda, and later in her own studio. She was not a<br>silversmith, so she designed the jewelry and had it executed by a number of<br>master silversmiths in Taxco. In the mid-1960s she moved to California where she<br>lived in Newport Beach while concentrating on painting and design projects.