925 Sterling Silver Marquise CZ Eye Huggie Earrings
The eye has been the most powerful symbol in human jewelry for more than five thousand years. The ancient Egyptians painted the Eye of Horus on their amulets and their coffins and their ships — the eye that sees everything, that protects against evil, that is the symbol of the divine watching over the mortal world. The Nazar — the blue glass eye bead that hangs in Turkish homes and Greek doorways and Mediterranean fishing boats — is the eye that deflects the evil eye, the protective gaze that turns the malevolent attention of envy back on itself. In ancient Rome, the fascinum — the evil eye — was considered one of the most dangerous forces in the world, and the eye amulet was the most common protective charm in the Roman world. The eye symbol appears in the jewelry of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Persia, ancient India, and ancient China — in every civilization that has left jewelry behind, the eye appears as a protective and powerful symbol. The marquise cut — the elongated oval with pointed ends that was commissioned by Louis XV of France to capture the shape of the lips of the Marquise de Pompadour — is also, when oriented vertically, the perfect shape of an eye: the two pointed ends are the corners of the eye, the wide center is the iris, the whole form is the eye that watches and protects. The marquise CZ eye huggie earring takes this most ancient and most powerful of all the jewelry symbols and sets it in 925 sterling silver and white zircon CZ — the sparkling CZ that fills the eye form with diamond-look brilliance, the fine jewelry piece that wears the protective gaze of five thousand years of human jewelry on the earlobe. This 925 sterling silver huggie earring sets white zircon CZ stones in the marquise eye design using the inlay technique, in 14K gold plating, at 1.83g. The earring that watches over the wearer.
Why You'll Love It
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Marquise Eye Design — Five Thousand Years of Protection — The eye — the Eye of Horus of ancient Egypt, the Nazar of Turkey and Greece, the fascinum of ancient Rome. The most powerful protective symbol in human jewelry for more than five thousand years, the symbol that appears in every civilization that has left jewelry behind. The marquise cut — the elongated oval with pointed ends — is the perfect shape of an eye, the form that carries the meaning of the most ancient and most universal protective symbol in the most elegant and most contemporary cut.
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White CZ — The Sparkling Eye — White zircon CZ stones set in the inlay technique across the marquise eye form — the diamond-look brilliance of high-quality CZ filling the eye shape with the most concentrated and most uniform sparkle. The CZ that catches the light from the pointed ends and concentrates it in the wide center, creating the sparkle that makes the eye appear most alive and most luminous — the protective eye that glitters like a diamond on the earlobe.
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Huggie Form — The Eye That Stays — The huggie hoop holds the marquise CZ eye close to the earlobe — the close-fitting hoop that keeps the protective eye always present, always watching, always guarding the wearer. The huggie that is the most intimate and most wearable earring form — the eye that is always there, the protective symbol that is always on.
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Dainty — 1.83g — At 1.83g per pair, the marquise CZ eye huggie is the lightweight protective earring — the fine jewelry piece that delivers the beauty and the meaning of the eye symbol in the most comfortable and most wearable form. The eye that is most present in its symbolism and least felt on the ear, the dainty huggie for the person who wants the protection of the eye without the weight.
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14K Gold Plating — The Warm Classic Finish — 14K gold plating gives the marquise CZ eye huggie its most luminous and most traditional expression — the warm metal that makes the white CZ appear most radiant and most precious within the eye form, the gold finish that echoes the gold settings of the ancient Egyptian eye amulets that first gave the eye symbol its most powerful expression in fine jewelry.
Product Details
- Material: 925 Sterling Silver
- Plating: 14K Gold Plated
- Stone: White Zircon (CZ) — Marquise Cut, Inlay
- Design: Marquise Eye Huggie Hoop
- Weight: 1.83g (per pair)
- Style: Protective, Elegant, Marquise CZ Eye Fine Jewelry Huggie Earrings
- Symbol: Evil Eye — Protection and Good Fortune
- Occasion: Everyday wear, gifting, self-purchase, all occasions
