The night frost falls on leaves of gold and red, icy beads shimmering beneath the darkened sky. Wings strings the night and the leaves and first frost of autumn together in an elemental cascade of fire and ice. At the very center of the strand sits a wood oval barrel bead of highly polished genuine ebony from Malawi. On either side of the focal bead, bright ceramic beads hand-made by Indigenous artists in Ghana, as gold as October aspens and hand-painted in brilliant red and white and black, alternate with smaller graduated ebony ovals. The sides of the necklace consist of smooth jet barrel beads alternating variously with snow-colored bone beads by carvers on Lamu Island, Kenya and with highly polished barrel beads and doughnut rondels of mookaite in gentle reds and golds. All beads are strung on sterling silver bead chain with sterling silver findings. Necklace hangs 20.5″ long (dimensions approximate). Designed jointly by Wings and Aji. Part of The Beaded Hoop Collection. Coordinates with Early Frost earrings. Long view shown below.
Sterling silver; ebony; hand-made and -painted Ghanaian ceramic beads; jet; African bone beads; mookaite
$375 + shipping, handling, and insurance
SOLD
Long view:
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