Moonlight, cloud, and the occasional aurora form the breath of the Spirit Bird, the Phoenix’s cosmic respiration and fire borne on the silvered wings of night. With these traditional concha earrings, Wings honors the Spirit Bird and the breath of life, the moon and the night and the medicines they hold. Each extraordinary drop is saw-cut freehand in a perfect cirle, lightly domed from the reverse in repoussé style. The stampwork, too, is all freehand: two concentric rings of gradient arcs, the smaller emanating from beneath the bezel at the center, the larger extending from its end to the edges, each arc formed of a single crescent stamped repeatedly. The directions alternate between the two drops, from one perspective, rising like raised wings, from the other coming together in a circle of life and breath. At the outer edges, where the arcs come together at the Four Sacred Directions, a simple five-pointed star lights the way. At the center, set into plain, low-profile round bezels, sit chatoyant moons — single round cabochons of extraordinary gray moonstone, catching and refracting the light. Organic hand-drilled tabs extend from the top of each, allowing them to hang suspended from sterling silver coil-and-ball-bead French earring wires. Domed, earrings hang 1-1/2″ long, excluding wires, by 1-1/2″ wide; cabochons are 3/8″ across (dimensions approximate).
Sterling silver; gray moonstone
$525 + shipping, handling, and insurance
SOLD
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