Autumn is the season when Grandmother Spider returns, hard at work weaving the web of night. With these earrings, Wings pays tribute to the work of the many orb weavers creating their delicate mandalas beneath the eaves now, as well as to the currently smoky, occasionally stormy skies of fall twilight. Each dangling drop is built around gorgeous oblong cabochons of Picasso jasper in a bold ellipse shape. This matched pair of stones, cut from the same specimen, is manifest in a stormy gray, black ribbons of matrix criss-crossing the finer veins in the stone like ribbons of night or the strands of Grandmother’s web. Each is set into a scalloped bezel and edged with twisted silver. An organic hand-drilled tab extends from the top of each bezel; sterling silver coil-and-ball-bead French wires are threaded through them. This pair of cabochons is thinner than the other specimens in this series, with greater fragility of their inclusions, hence the slightly lower price. Earrings hang 1-3/8″ long, excluding bails and wires, by 3/4″ across at the widest point; cabochons are 1-1/4″ long by 1/2″ across at the widest point (dimensions approximate).
Sterling silver; Picasso jasper
$425 + shipping, handling, and insurance
SOLD
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