I am Proud to Offer You this Contemporary "Gifts from the Sea"™ Line of Exclusive Designs Created by Hawaiian Jewelry Artist Marta Howell®. Contemporary and Bold, Not for the Timid.Ever Know That Feeling When You See Something at a Moment's Glance and You do a Double-take Second Look...
I am Proud to Offer You this Contemporary "Gifts from the Sea"™ Line of Exclusive Designs Created by Hawaiian Jewelry Artist Marta Howell®. Contemporary and Bold, Not for the Timid.Ever Know That Feeling When You See Something at a Moment's Glance and You do a Double-take Second Look, Because Your Eyes Just Didn't Believe What they Saw. This Was the Exact Effect Felt When I Came Across Marta's Gorgeous Collection of Unique and Superbly Crafted Art Pieces! Exquisitely Beautiful, Each and Every Piece is a Show Stopper! From Her Heart to Yours Comes This Beautiful Gift from the Sea! I Truly Apologize to Her as My Pictures Do Not Best Reflect the True Appearance and Beauty of Her Wonderful Treasures as a Gifted Artist. All of Marta's Shell Pieces Are Geographically-Selected as She Possesses a Keen Understanding of How Each Region's Shell Can Display Certain Qualities With Respect to Their Luster, Colors and Iridescent Characteristics. All of Marta's Calibrated and Uniform-Sized Semi-Precious Gemstones are "A+" Grade or Better as She Pursues to Achieve the Highest Quality of Standards in Each of Her Art Pieces Made. The Tradename, Trademark, Logo, and Exclusive Jewelry Designs Are All Copyright Properties of Marta Howell Studio®.
NOTES: The Item is Much Better Than Pictured and Does Not Reflect the True Beauty of the Brilliant Mother of Pearl Shell's Iridescent Hues, Shades, and Color Reflections or the Potential Brilliance and Asterism of the 4-Rayed Star of the Diopside Gemstone. Brand New, Never Used Hawaiian-Designed Silver Shell and Gemstone Clip Earrings. 100% Solid .925 Sterling Silver (Not Plated, Not Bonded, Not Filled) Clip-On Earrings With Natural Australian Black-Lip Mother of Pearl Shells and Elahera Mines, Sri Lanka Black Star of India Gemstones.
- Symbolism: The color Black is grounding, it helps one to maintain their connection to the reality no matter the outward appearance. It awakens the ideas that are needed originally in order to start the creation process. Black Star Diopside assists one in living in the now and seizing the day. Helps one to be in touch with the forces that helps one to gain wisdom and correct the tendency to space out and become ungrounded. It also eases pain, corrects disorders associated with lungs, heart and digestive absorption problems. Additionally, it raises the consciousness, balances the energies, and calms the energies. Eliminates feeling of lack and assists one to see the richness in ones life no matter the circumstances.
- Design: Contemporary Tri-Oval Shells With Oval Black Star Diopside Gemstones #1; Cutout, Bezel-Set Shells and Gemstones, Hand-Cut and Hand-Shaped Shells, Subtle Concave (Sunken) Shaped Shell Surfaces, Oval Cabochon-Cut Black Star Diopside Gemstones, Surface Polished Shells, Smooth Silver High Polish Finish, Sterling Silver Clip-On Settings.
- Designer: Marta Howell Studio®, O`ahu, Hawai`i. All Designs Are Copyrighted.
- Color/s: Black-Lip Mother of Pearl: These Lustrous Shell Pieces Display a Creamy Light-Brownish Tan, Silver and Light Gray Background Color With Iridescent Flashes of Pink, Rose, Green, Orange, Yellow, Violet, Laveder, Purple, and Subtle Navy and Royal Blue Overtones Along With the Vertical Black-Lipped Edge of the Oyster Shell...Just Gorgeous! The Shell's Satin Patina Have a 3-Dimensional Quality, and at Every Turn of These Piece You See a Rainbow of Colors Traversing Across its Face; Gemstones: Black Star of India (Black Star Diopside) (Dark Tone), Black with Four-Rayed Star. This Oval-Cabochon Black Star Diopside Gemstone is Well Cut Displaying a Nice Glassy Luster and a Very Beautiful, Translucent Black Color Tone Background, Which is Completely Natural (This Natural Star Diopside Gem Has Not Been Heated or Treated in Anyway as There Are No Known Enhancing Techniques For This Type of Gem). This High Quality Gem Has Natural Inclusions Common to Star Diopsides Showing Silky Luminescent Threads Within the Asterism Effect Only (The Stone Appears Clean to the Unaided Eye).
- Measures: Overall Incl. Gemstone Approx. Just Over 3/4" Widest X Just Over 1 1/16" Long Incl. Hidden Clip-On Settings.
- Black Star Diopside: Oval: Approx. Just Over 3/16" Widest X Just Over 1/4" Long X Just Over 3/16" Deep; Gem Grade: ="">High, Natural, Not Enhanced; Total Carat Weight: Approx. 3.36 Cts Black Star Diopside; Location/Notes: Mined From the Elahera Mines, Sri Lanka. These Gemstones Were Intricately Cut and Polished in Jaipur, India Where Cutting and Polishing Are Predominantly Done by Hand, Which Requires an Immense Degree of Skill and Years of Experience. In Jaipur, the Gem Manufacturing Industry is Over 300 Years Old, Which Also Happens to be the World’s Largest Center For Gemstone Cutting and Polishing.
- Weight: Approx. 12.5 grams Total.
- Features: These Beautiful Pair of Hand-Made Hawaiian Designed Sterling Silver Clip Earrings Are Superbly Hand-Crafted. This Labor-Intensive Design Features Two Gorgeous, Tri-Oval Cut Pieces of Natural (Not Treated, Not Color Enhanced) Australian Black-Lip Mother of Pearl Shells. The Shells Are High Detailed With Enhanced Polishing Techniques to Bring Out the Best Luster, Patterns, and Colors. The Focal Point is a Gorgeous, Oval Shaped Cabochon-Cut Black Star of India Gemstone Anchored at the Bottom Center of Each Setting. The Shells and Black Star Diopside Gems Are Encased in Hand-Shaped Solid .925 Sterling Silver Frames Conforming to the Exact Cut, Shape, and Sides of the Pieces Using a Very Strong 40-Strand Sterling Silver Wire. The Earrings Are Constructed With Clip-On Settings For Non-Pierced or Pierced Ears. A Unique, One of a Kind Piece that Exudes Pride of Ownership! Retails for $248 and Higher in Fine Waikiki Shops, and Inter-Island Boutiques and Shopping Mall Jewelry Stores.
About Marta: Staff Writer, Honolulu Advertiser - "A mollusk is not a pretty thing. At least from the outside. They are usually gray and craggy and covered with little craters that look like out-of-control warts. Of all the creatures in the ocean, a mollusk seems unlikely to be the one that would normally inspire art...until its shell is opened. Opening a mollusk can be like prying open a treasure box long hidden in the depths of the ocean. Iridescent colors explode from the shell, from pale gray-blues and soft golden tones to brilliant pinks, purples and greens. Now these Gifts from the Sea™ are being used to create one-of-a-kind wearable art by one of Hawai`i's jewelry designers Marta Howell of Kailua, on the Island of Oahu, Hawai`i." She begins with Mother-of-pearl, sometimes combining it with Corals and Semi-precious Stones such as Tourmaline, Peridot, Amethyst, Blue Topaz, Citrine and Garnet, as the muses move Her. David, her husband taught her silversmithing, and she uses silver to bind the pieces together. The effect is often of a silver frame around the shells and stones. Marta stated, "I see art in every piece of shell. It's a never-ending adventure. Taking layers from the shells was like finding a new world within the shell." Howell said the temperature of the ocean, age of the mollusk and algae and seaweed they eat help determine the colors the shells take on. Those from Sumatra have a golden hue; from Norway, blue-pink; and New Zealand's are green-blue. Howell said one of the properties she likes best about working with mother-of-pearl is that there is a shade that works with every skin color. When she is designing, she has six muses in mind, each is based on a woman she has known in real life. They range from a graceful, feminine Hawaiian woman to a businesswoman "with attitude." ="">About Black Star Diopside Gems: Diopside was first described about 1800 and derives its name from the Greek dis, "twice", and òpsè, "face"; or "two-vision" in reference to the two ways of orienting the vertical prism. Black Star Diopside is a monoclinic pyroxene mineral with a composition of Calcium Magnesium Silicate. Another name that has appeared over the years for Black Star Diopside is the Black Star of India. It forms variably colored, but typically seen as dull green crystals. It has two distinct prismatic cleavages at 87° and 93°. It has a Mohs scale hardness of 5.5–6.5. Its crystals are transparent to translucent; the luster is vitreous (glassy). Diopside is found in ultramafic (kimberlite and peridotite) igneous rocks, and Diopside-rich augite is common in mafic rocks, such as olivine basalt and andesite. It is also found in meteorites. Large quantities of Star Diopside are mainly found and cut from India. Other notable occurrences include New York, USA; Russia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Burma, Madagascar, South Africa, Finland, Pakistan, and Canada. Diopside has several varieties, including a chromium-rich gem variety called Chrome Diopside. Diopside displays several colors ranging from a colorless clear, white, blue, black, brown, gray, bright and pale green to a yellowish or greenish brown appearance. Mineral specimens of Diopside can be very striking in appearance. Gemstone quality Diopside is found in two forms, the Black Star Diopside and the Chrome Diopside. Both types of these specimens are natural and not enhanced. Black Star Diopside is an opaque stone, generally black in color but can occasionally be found with shades of green; rarely a definite green. Black Star Diopside exhibits a star-like phenomenon known as Asterism. These stones contain inclusions in the form of needles that align to produce a white, 4-rayed star, two of which are straight, while the other two, not at right angles to the first pair, look slightly wavy. It is unique, because it's the only gemstone to exhibit a 4-rayed star. Unlike a Black Star Diopside, a Black Star Sapphire will display a dark six-rayed or twelve-rayed star, which can be confused with a Black Star Diopside. The way to differentiate the two stones is by viewing the star's rays. Unlike Black Star Sapphires, which are enhanced, Black Star Diopside gems are all natural, untreated and non color-enhanced. Black Star Sapphire is always heat treated to produce, intensify or lighten color and/or improve color uniformity and appearance. Specimens are always cut into round or oval cabochons which are generally biconvex with a roughly shaped, unpolished base. Regardless of whether or not a Diopside initially displayed a star, once it has been faceted, it will no longer offer up a star. For this reason, when examining Diopsides, gemstone cutters must always take the time to look closely at the stone and check to see whether it has enough properly orientated inclusions to form a star. If it does, the Diopside will be cut into a Cabochon shape, the only shape that allows the stone to display the beautiful asterism, or star. Diopside Care and Cleaning: Black Star Diopside is best cleaned using warm soapy water and a soft brush. Care should be taken to avoid any sharp blows or scratches. As with most gemstones, Black Star Diopsides should be kept away from prolonged exposure to excessive heat and household chemicals that could damage the stone. Always keep your Diopside jewelry in a fabric-lined box away from other harder jewelry items to avoid scratching. Jewelry Handling: It is Not Recommended to Use Harsh Cleaners, Detergents, Soaps, Shampoos, Jewelry Cloths or Jewelry Liquids, Chemicals, Chlorine, Body or Tanning Lotions, Ultrasonic Cleaners, Tarnish Creams, Showering, Swimming in Pools or Hot Tubs or the Ocean With Natural Larimar and Gemstone Adorned Silver Jewelry. Australian ="">Black-Lip Oyster (Pteria Penguin):Pteria is a genus of winged oyster closely related to Pinctata that also produces commercial quantities of pearls. Winged oysters are edible but unpalatable, and seldom produce precious pearls. It is a tropical species, with pearly interiors and long, wing-like projections of the hinge, have fragile shells. Winged oysters are found naturally on rocks and coral near channels and capes where the current runs fast and they attach themselves to the ocean bottom and to wharf pilings. Pteria Penguin is a major source of Mabe Pearl production. Mabe pearls have a characteristic semispherical shape and unique rainbow-like luster and are a cultured half pearl, formed by inserting a half-sphere between the mantle and the shell. Since Mabe pearl oysters do not clump and their population is small, it is difficult to obtain a lot of mother of pearl material from these oysters. The Mabe pearl oyster, Pteria Penguin that grows up to 20-30 cm in diameter is also called “the penguin wing oyster” from its shape like a wing. They commonly display a silver color under the oyster muscle with a rich mauve, gold banding towards the black/brown outer-lip. All semispherical “half-pearls” used to be called “Mabe”, however, only pearls come from the Pteria penguin are called “Mabe pearls” now. The Mabe oyster produces a brilliant nacre with a rainbow-like spectrum of hues, and the Mabe pearls produced from this nacre, which sizes are 12-20mm in diameter, possess a uniquely penetrating brilliance, with hues ranging from light pink through deep rose-red to a "rainbow" pink. Habitat It can be found from the Red Sea in the east to the western tropical Pacific and from the southern islands of Japan in the north to the southern waters of Australia. The Black Lip Oysters’ “mother of pearl” inner shell has beautiful iridescent qualities. The Mother of Pearl shell is surface polished to display a beautiful shine along with its natural rainbow colored hues and iridescence. Gorgeous and radiant in appearance! Mother of Pearl Care: Use mild soaps and water on mother of pearl to clean it, and avoid storing it with jewelry which may scratch it and wear away the luminous layers of nacre. Purchase Assurance of Quality: As Each of These Pair of Earrings Are Intricately Hand-made, With High Attention-to-Detail, Using Natural Mother of Pearl Shells and Semi-Precious Gemstones, ="">Each is a One-of-a-kind, Unique Design That You Will Cherish for Your Very Own! There Are Unique Variations in the Shell's Iridescent Background Colors, Patterns, and Shape Appearances, Which Are Approximately Represented in the Item's Picture/s. The Item's Picture Provides All the Main Appearance Characteristics in Each Pair of Earrings Purchased. Makes a Great Gift or Treat Yourself to Start or Add to Your Collection of Fine Gemstone Designs. Stamped .925 With Artist's Hallmark For Assurance Marks of Solid .925 Sterling Silver Purity and Quality Jewelry Art Created by Marta Howell. Hand-made with "aloha". Ships in a Gift Box With and Exclusive Marta Howell Gift Pouch. 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