THIS LISTING IS FOR A PAIR OF CLIP-ON EARRINGS!
OVALS 1⅛” x ⅝” - Matching pendant may be available for purchase on the pendant page.
These stones read like landscape. Two perfectly matched picture jasper ovals, each measuring 1⅛” x ⅝”, carry the warm golden amber and pale cream banding that makes this material one of the most visually compelling jaspers in the lapidary world bold horizontal sweeps of color that suggest mesa tops and canyon walls, the particular light of late afternoon on sedimentary stone. No two picture jaspers are alike. These two are as close as they come.
Each stone sits in a full hand-twisted rope border bezel in oxidized .925 sterling silver the classic Southwest framing that lets the stone do its work while grounding the piece in the tradition of this place. The clip-on backs are secure and comfortable, the kind of finding that wears through a full day without the discomfort that lesser hardware delivers. For those who do not have pierced ears, these earrings offer no compromise the stone, the silver, the craft are entirely unchanged. At 1⅛” they wear with the quiet authority of material that has been carrying the colors of the earth for millions of years.
Details:
Stone: Picture Jasper · Origin: Unknown · Matrix: Browns · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Earrings Setting: 1⅛” x ⅝” Oval · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
Made in Taos by a Taosena.
Some Jewelry is made. Some is found. At Fire & Stone, it's both.
CLIP-ON Picture Jasper Earrings
Picture jasper is a form of microcrystalline quartz, chalcedony, that forms when silica-rich groundwater infiltrates existing rock, carrying iron oxides and other minerals that settle into the distinctive landscape-like patterns that give the stone its name. The term picture jasper describes the visual quality of the stone rather than a specific source the way its banding, color fields, and inclusions combine to suggest aerial landscapes, canyon walls, desert floors, and distant horizons.
What makes each picture jasper unique is the precise mineral environment of its formation the particular combination of iron, manganese, clay, and other trace elements present as the silica hardened over millions of years. No two stones carry the same composition. The warm saffron and gold palette of this particular stone reflects a high iron oxide content during formation the same mineral signature responsible for the red rocks of the American Southwest, concentrated here into a single brilliant field of color.
