Lapis Lazuli and Clear Quartz Chips Sterling Silver Necklace

There is a quietness to deep blue that no other stone quite holds. Lapis lazuli, beloved since antiquity across Persia, Egypt and the Mughal courts, arrives here in chip form: raw-edged fragments of the stone, each one fractured to reveal its constellation of gold pyrite inclusions against that unmistakable midnight blue. Paired with faceted clear quartz chips that throw light in every direction, the two materials create a rhythm of opacity and brilliance along the strand. The setting is sterling silver throughout, its cool grey metal acting as a neutral spine from which each chip is wire-looped or knotted into place. At ninety-eight grams, the necklace carries genuine substance; you feel the weight of real stone against the collarbone. The length, twenty and a half inches (approximately fifty-two centimetres), falls just below the notch of the throat, at the upper chest. Wear this over a cream handloom linen kurta on a winter afternoon when the fabric and the stone seem to share the same unhurried disposition. For evening, it belongs against a deep teal or ivory Chanderi blouse, where the lapis reads almost architectural against the shimmer of the weave. The piece is free-sized and closes with a sterling silver clasp, making it straightforward to put on and remove without assistance. The chip construction means no two necklaces will be identical in texture or pattern; the irregularity is the point, and the sterling silver resists tarnish well with ordinary care.

Details

• Material: Sterling Silver
• Dimensions: 20.5 inch Length
• Weight: 98.0 g
• SKU: LDD474