Early summer is the season of the rising and setting of smoky suns, of dustlight orbs at dawn and dusk glowing behind a veil of pollen, cloud, and smoke. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to the bronze-limned glow of a golden sun, and to an earth awash in its silvery rays in the twilight moments that bookend each day. Each dangling drop is a traditional concha, saw-cut and domed by hand in the classic style. Each is scored and stamped freehand in a radiant pattern that is almost, but not quite, identical: on the left, the wider rays of the dawn emanating from behind the tiger’s eye’s chatoyant glow to end in sweeping arcs of light; on the right, the more tightly gathered rays that dodge and dance with remnant clouds, with wind and dust and smoke, the deeply incised scorework ending in steeper, tighter arcs, as befits the shortened light of dusk. Each is set at the center with a round, highly domed tiger’s eye cabochon, shades of gold and amber bisecting the bronzed earthy shades like lightning. Each hangs from a flat sterling silver jump ring that serves as a bail; sterling silver coil-and-ball-bead earring wires are threaded through them. Earrings hang 1-3/4″ long including bail (excluding wires); conchas are 1.5″ long by 1.5″ wide; cabochons are 5/16″ across (all dimensions approximate).
Sterling silver; tiger’s eye
$425 + shipping, handling, and insurance
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