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Pendant Teardrop 1¾” x 1⅛” - Matching earrings are available for purchase on the earrings page.
There is an hour in the late afternoon when the desert goes entirely gold when the light comes in sideways and every surface catches fire and the whole landscape turns the color of something ancient and unhurried. This stone holds that hour permanently. The teardrop picture jasper cabochon measures 1¾” x 1⅛” its surface saturated with deep saffron and amber gold that sweeps across the stone in bold, painterly movements. A pool of cream and white breaks through the lower half, scattered with warm brown speckles that drift across it like dust in afternoon light. Dark lines trace through the composition like the shadow of a distant ridge. It is a stone that looks like it was painted by someone who had seen the desert at exactly the right moment.
Set in oxidized .925 sterling silver with a full hand-twisted rope border and ball terminals, the teardrop bezel gives the stone an elegant downward movement that carries the pendant naturally to the collarbone. The setting is warm and considered rope and silver that honor the stone’s saturated palette without competing with it. This is a piece that photographs beautifully, wears effortlessly, and earns a second look every time.
Details:
Stone: Picture Jasper · Origin: Unknown · Matrix: Browns · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Pendant Setting: 1¾” x 1⅛” Teardrop · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
Made in Taos by a Taosena.
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The Golden Hour - Picture Jasper Pendant
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.
