Moonstone and Silver Bracelet

A row of square silver plaques, each holding a round moonstone cabochon afloat within an open ring, hinges into a wide flexible band that bends around the wrist while the stones hold an even line. The composition is pure geometry — circle inside square, stone inside circle — and that reduction to a few clean shapes is the kind of disciplined modern construction Antonio Pineda pursued through his Taxco years.

The open ring does the work here: it frames each moonstone with a band of light and lifts it off the silver plane, so the stone reads as a floating point rather than a flush setting. Panel after panel, the rings set up a steady rhythm down the band, and the cool, milky sheen of the moonstones runs the whole length of it.

The bracelet is worked in 970 silver and struck with Antonio Pineda's crown mark, MADE IN MEXICO and the eagle assay, and carries the inventory code ZZ638 — the ZZ prefix reserved for bracelets in the workshop numbering recorded by Stromberg. Moonstone, a feldspar prized for the soft blue-white glow that shifts across its surface, suits the spare setting, which leaves the stone to carry the color.

Built from one repeated unit and almost nothing else, it shows Pineda treating a bracelet as architecture for the wrist — square, circle, and luminous stone, ordered and nothing more.