| Stone Type | Kundan |
| Weight (g) | 0.00 |
| Colour | Purple |
| Occasion | Wedding |
A pair of drop earrings in gold-tone brass, set kundan-style with flat-bedded stones and coloured stones. The lower half is a mass of pearls. They measure about 3 inches.
A drop earring hangs its weight below the lobe rather than resting on it, which lengthens the face and keeps the design moving as the wearer does.
The lower half is a dense cluster of freshwater-style pearls, massed rather than strung. Massing is what gives the piece its volume without giving it weight.
Shaped bead drops hang below the body of the earring, lengthening the line and stopping the design from reading as one solid block.
Coloured glass stones are used alongside the clear ones. Glass is the right choice for colour at this price: it takes a deeper, more saturated shade than any cut crystal does.
It is a long earring, and length is the point of it — a piece this size is meant to be seen from across a room.
The body is brass under a gold polish. Brass is the right base for a piece this size — heavy enough to feel like something in the hand, soft enough to be worked into a deep bell, and it does not go brittle with age. The colour is the polish; the weight is the brass.
Those wide flat rims around the stones are the kundan idiom. Kundan setting beds a flat stone in soft metal worked cold around its edge, and the shape it leaves behind is the most recognisable thing in Indian jewellery. Nothing here is gold foil, but the proportions are the ones that technique produced.
9 shades are available: Purple, Red, Baby Pink, Pink, Black, Sea Green, Green, Sky Blue and Yellow. The swatches on this page show them; the shade you choose is confirmed on your enquiry before anything is charged.
Tie the hair back and skip the necklace. With a drop this size the earrings are the outfit's one piece of ornament, and they are enough.
What you are buying at this price is design rather than material, and that is a perfectly reasonable thing to buy. The shapes here come out of a jewellery tradition several centuries old and they work at a fraction of the weight and a tiny fraction of the cost of the versions in precious metal.
Treat the finish as the wearing part. Keep it away from water, perfume and hair spray, put the earrings on after you have finished dressing, and wipe them with a dry cotton cloth before they go away. Stored dry in a zip pouch with the air pressed out, the finish lasts for years; left in a humid bathroom it will not last a season.
Instead of an add-to-cart checkout you will find an enquiry button, and that is deliberate. These arrive in small quantities per colour, and the colour you want has to be confirmed before we charge for it. Send the enquiry with the shade you are after and we will reply with stock, price and timing. Payment is prepaid in every case. We do not offer cash on delivery.
| Stone Type | Kundan |
| Weight (grams) | 0.00 |
| Colour/Finish | Purple |
| Occasion | Wedding |
| Gender | women |
| SKU/Product Code | KEYU-NAA3330 |
