As the night falls, the world embraces us in the cosmic beauty of twilight. With this necklace, Wings evokes the reds and purples of sunset against the silvered black of impending night, of the flowering of moon- and starlight in a cloud-bejeweled sky. The pendant is built around an extraordinary teardrop-shaped focal stone, one that we believe to be dendritic red flower jasper with purple and black jaspers included into it, perhaps faint traces of pale quartz and hematite woven throughout. it’s set into a simple scalloped bezel on an extended backing, one scalloped by freehand saw-work to evokes the petals within the stone and of twilight’s flowering glow. The flange is stamped freehand using a single tiny divot-end stamp, scores, perhaps hundreds of strikes of the jeweler’s hammer texturizing it with a richly aged look. Each petal-like scalloped edge arcs around a tiny round cabochon, twelve of them in all: six fiery carnelian rounds glowing from within, six cool metallic hematite in full shimmer, all highly domed and all set into saw-toothed bezels. The pendant hangs from a hand-made sterling silver bezel curved backward, slider-style; it’s stamped freehand, end to end and edge to edge, in paired Art Deco petals of light and textured lodge motifs. The whole hangs from a strand of equally phenomenal beads, each hand-selected specifically for this work: rounds of deep purple amethyst, shimmering ruby, black onyx, and marbled lepidolite, separated by smooth rondels of hematite and old red glass and faceted rondels of natural ruby. Along the sides, bold barrels of sunset jasper in marbled rose and wine and plum frame very old large rounds of natural hematite, one per side. The anchor segments consist of tiny faceted black glass beads around amethyst orbs and single onyx bugle beads. Pendant with bail hangs 2-3/4″ long; excluding bail, 2-1/2″ long by 2″ across at the widest point; bail itself is a total of 3/4″ long by 7/16″ wide; the focal cabochon is 1-3/4″ long by 1-3/8″ across at the widest point; small accent cabochons are 3/16″ each; bead strand is roughly 22″ long [all dimensions approximate]. Other views shown below.
Pendant: Sterling silver; likely melding of red flower and purple jaspers; carnelian; hematite
Strand: Tri-ply foxtail plated with silver; sterling silver findings
Beads: Amethyst; hematite; old red glass; ruby; lepidolite; sunset jasper;
OLD natural hematite; onyx; old black glass
$1,800 + shipping, handling, and insurance
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