Laurel Burch Signed Pierced round Earrings Mynah Bird. Signed store

store Stylized mynah bird earrings with shimmery enameled cranberry red body and jet black wings outlined in gold.

Size: approximately 2 cm or tad over 3/4 inches in diameter.
Post backs with push tabs

Gold toned non magnetic metal backs. The round shape is slightly curved.

Signed "MYNAH BIRD" and "Laurel Burch" on both backs

Condition: Lovely. No damage.


Laurel Burch, who as a 20-year-old single mother, found metal in junkyards to hammer into jewelry to support her two children, and went on to win distinction as a fanciful designer and success as a savvy businesswoman, died on Sept. 13, 2007 at her home in Novato, Calif. She was 61.She was ill for years with the complications of a painful bone disease osteopetrosis

Ms. Burch translated her visions of “fantastic felines,” mythical animals, colorful blossoms, butterflies, moons, hearts and imagined people, among myriad other imaginings, into colorful enamel jewelry, paintings, T-shirts, scarves, ceramics and tote bags, which were sold by thousands of stores. Forbes magazine in 1985 said she had created a niche between high-volume, low-price costume jewelry and high-priced designer lines like Paloma Picasso's for Tiffany. Her husband said that 90 percent of her designs derived from her original paintings.
She grew up in a broken home and found some measure of peace in playing the guitar, dancing and drawing.

Invited to China in 1971, she discovered cloisonné, a kind of enamel work, which has sectioned-off brightly colored areas of enamel that form a larger pattern. She made a dozen paintings and had the designs made into earrings. This was the beginning of her signature look, with cloisonné patterns showing up in many other media, including fabric. She went on to work on cast metals and wood and to include spinoff products on paper, porcelain and fabric.

She ignored fashion trends saying her goal was a look that appealed to shy people as well as bold, eccentric ones.
In her last artworks she sometimes included words. One quoted an American Indian proverb: “The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.” (Condensed from New York Times, 9/20/07)