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Designer: Thomas Hunt
Turquoise Flowers Earrings
The earrings by Thomas Hunt for the Designer collection are inspired by the floral world: the two turquoise spheres are set in golden petals, from which turquoise drops slide away like morning dew.
Details
Being a handmade creation, features below may slightly vary.
- Color: Light blue
- Length: 4,5 cm
- Materials: Sleeping Beauty Turquoise, 18 Kt yellow gold
- Collection: Designer
Designer
THOMAS HUNT
Excellent Master goldsmith of remarkable experience and refined taste. His combinations of stones, of different nature and colour, create very delicate jewels, that feel like a caress to women who wear his creations. Trained at the goldsmith’s school of San Francisco, he is still today a reference point to all the jewellers around San Francisco Bay.
Materials
SLEEPING BEAUTY TURQUOISE
Turquoise is a mineral, specifically a hydrated phosphate of aluminium and copper, that give to the stone blue and green shades, respectively. The word turquoise derives from the Turks merchants who exported the gem in Europe.
The gem colour changes according to its origin place.
The most valued quality of turquoise is the so-called Sleeping Beauty from the Globe mines in Arizona. The name refers to the natural conformation of the mountains, whose profile recalls that of a “sleeping beauty”. The uniqueness of this quality is given by the solidity and purity of the stone and by the gleam of the colour.
18 Kt GOLD
Pure gold, as present in nature, is a malleable material. So, in order to be used in jewellery, it must be alloyed with other metals. As a consequence, gold can have different colorations: yellow gold requires additional alloys like brass, zinc and silver; in white gold, on the other hand, are used alloys of brass (in reduced amount compared to yellow gold) and palladium.