925 Sterling Silver Turquoise Enamel Shell Hoop Earrings
The shell is the ocean's architecture. Every shell is a home — the calcium carbonate structure that a mollusc secretes around itself over the course of its life, adding layer upon layer of material in the precise spiral or fan or cone that is determined by the mollusc's genetics and the conditions of the water in which it lives. The shell is the record of the mollusc's life: the growth rings that mark each year, the color variations that mark changes in diet and water temperature, the shape that is the most efficient structure for protecting the soft body within. When the mollusc dies, the shell remains — the architecture that outlasts its architect, the home that becomes a found object on the beach, the most beautiful piece of natural design that the ocean leaves behind. The turquoise enamel — the blue-green color that is the color of the shallow tropical ocean, the color of the water over white sand, the color that is simultaneously the most vivid and the most calming in the spectrum — fills the shell form with the color of the sea itself. The white zircon CZ adds the sparkle of sunlight on the ocean surface. This 925 sterling silver hoop earring sets white zircon CZ and turquoise enamel in the shell design using the inlay and enamel techniques, in 14K gold or platinum plating, at 2.54g. The earring that wears the ocean's most beautiful architecture in the ocean's most beautiful color.
Why You'll Love It
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Shell Design — The Ocean's Architecture — The 🐚 shell — the calcium carbonate home that a mollusc builds around itself over the course of its life, the most beautiful piece of natural design that the ocean leaves behind on the beach. The shell earring that carries the meaning of the ocean's most enduring and most beautiful architecture — the fine jewelry piece that wears the form of the sea's most perfect natural structure on the earlobe.
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Turquoise Enamel — The Color of the Tropical Ocean — Turquoise enamel — the blue-green color that is the color of the shallow tropical ocean, the color of the water over white sand in the Maldives, in the Caribbean, in the Great Barrier Reef. The vitreous enamel fused to the 925 sterling silver surface at high temperature, the color that is most permanent and most vivid, the turquoise that fills the shell form with the color of the sea itself. The shell in the color of the ocean it came from.
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Shell + Turquoise — The Most Complete Ocean Earring — The shell form and the turquoise color — the shape of the ocean and the color of the ocean in the same earring. The fine jewelry piece that is most completely marine, the earring that carries the ocean in both its form and its color simultaneously. The coastal earring that is most immediately evocative of the sea, the beach, the sound of waves, and the feeling of sand between the toes.
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Hoop Form — The Shell in Motion — The turquoise enamel shell sits on the hoop, the circular form that gives the shell design its most dynamic and most wearable expression. The hoop that frames the shell without enclosing it, that presents the turquoise enamel design as something precious and deliberate, the earring form that is most at home on the person who moves through the world with the ease and the confidence of someone who has spent time by the sea.
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Two Plating Options — Choose 14K gold plating for the warm, classic finish that gives the turquoise enamel shell its most luminous and most coastal expression — the gold hoop that echoes the warm color of the sand and the golden light of the afternoon sun on the tropical ocean. Or choose platinum plating for the cool, modern white metal look that gives the shell its most contemporary expression — the silver hoop that makes the turquoise enamel appear most vivid and most saturated by contrast.
Product Details
- Material: 925 Sterling Silver
- Plating: 14K Gold Plated / Platinum Plated
- Stone: White Zircon (CZ) — Inlay
- Enamel: Turquoise — Shell Design
- Technique: Inlay + Enamel
- Design: Shell Hoop
- Weight: 2.54g (per pair)
- Style: Coastal, Marine, Turquoise Enamel Fine Jewelry Shell Hoop Earrings
- Occasion: Beach, summer, everyday coastal wear, gifting, self-purchase, all occasions
