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Lapis And Leaves: cluster earrings featuring bronze leaves with blue lapis lazuli pebbles – one of a kind

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Two pebbles of lapis lazuli, deep blue with flecks of golden pyrite, dangle from bronze-coloured chains. From each chain hang two lightweight, bronze-coloured leaves, with swirling, tribal-style designs.

The 'Lapis And Leaves' earrings are a one-off design, never to be repeated. They are lightweight, and tinkle slightly as the leaves move against the chains.

Lapis lazuli is one of my favourite stones. It is a distinctive, rich, midnight blue, usually speckled with pyrite (fool's gold) and calcite, like gold and white stars in a deep blue, dreamlike sky.
The history of this stunning semiprecious stone is fascinating. For example, the ancient Egyptians, obsessed as they were with the afterlife, called lapis lazuli the 'stone of heaven', because it was blue, and decided that it was therefore more valuable even than gold. They also powdered it and used it as eyeshadow.
The name 'lapis lazuli' comes from the Latin 'lapis', which means stone, and the Persian 'lazhward', the name of a place where lapis lazuli could be mined. Eventually, the word 'lazhward' came to be identified with the stone, and subsequently the colour of the stone. As a result, our English word 'azure' comes from 'lazhward'.

These particular lapis beads are very high quality. They are slightly irregular in shape, like smooth pebbles. They have the typical flecks of golden pyrite, and some grey smudges of iron, like stardust or clouds in the night sky.

These one-of-a-kind earrings measure 66mm from top to bottom. The leaves are 25mm long, including the baile (hanging loop), and 13mm across. The lapis lazuli beads are approximately 9mm across.
The leverback ear-wires are without nickel.

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