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Pendant Teardrop 1½” x 1⅛” - Matching earrings are available for purchase on the earrings page.
There is an hour in the high desert when the light goes horizontal and everything turns the color of warm earth when canyon walls deepen to chocolate and the distance goes soft and the whole landscape holds its breath before dark. This stone holds that hour permanently. The teardrop Deschutes jasper cabochon measures 1½” x 1⅛” — its surface moving through warm chocolate, taupe, sand, and amber in sweeping atmospheric bands that layer like sediment, like memory, like the view from a ridge at the end of a long day.
The setting is as considered as the stone. A clean .925 sterling silver bezel frames the teardrop form at the top, while a graduated row of ball terminals runs along the base descending in size like a natural progression, like the last notes of something beautiful. It is a detail that rewards the close look. This pendant settles at the collarbone and stays there, quiet and warm and entirely sure of itself.
Details:
Stone: Deschutes · Origin: Oregon · Matrix: Brown and Black · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Pendant Setting: 1½” x 1⅛”Teardrop · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
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Deschutes Jasper Pendant
Deschutes jasper also known as Biggs jasper in some collector circles comes from the canyon country along the Deschutes River in north-central Oregon, where ancient volcanic ash deposits were slowly replaced by silica-rich groundwater over millions of years. The result is a picture jasper of exceptional atmospheric quality warm earth tones banded in sweeping, landscape-like patterns that collectors describe as looking like aerial photographs of the high desert.
The chocolate, tan, and amber palette of Deschutes jasper reflects the iron-rich volcanic ash of its formation environment, while the subtle layering and shading come from variations in mineral concentration as the silica slowly hardened over geological time. No two Deschutes jasper stones read the same each one is a unique landscape, cut from ancient Oregon earth and polished to reveal what was always there beneath the surface.
