| Metal | Brass |
| Weight (g) | 22.00 |
| Colour | Baby Pink |
| Occasion | Festival |
A pair of jhumkas in oxidised German silver over brass. A domed teardrop stone sits at the lobe in a plain bezel, and a fluted bell hangs below it with a pearl fringe along the rim.
The stone is a cabochon — domed and polished smooth rather than cut into facets. A cabochon gives one soft moving highlight instead of scattered sparkle, and against a blackened ground that is the right choice: a brilliant cut would read as glassy next to matte metal, where a cabochon reads as depth.
It is held in a bezel, a continuous rim of metal folded over the edge of the stone rather than claws gripping it. A bezel is the most secure setting there is and the least likely to catch on cloth, which matters more on an everyday earring than on a bridal one.
The bell is fluted from crown to rim. The ribs stiffen a thin dome so it keeps its shape, and they break the light into vertical bands rather than one flat sheen — on oxidised metal that banding is most of what you see.
A short fringe of small pearls finishes the rim and softens the whole lower edge.
Brass finished as German silver and then oxidised. German silver holds no silver — it is copper, nickel and zinc, used for this kind of work for well over a century because it takes a blackening beautifully and stays hard enough to keep crisp detail.
The teardrop is a polished glass stone rather than a gemstone. At this price glass gives a deeper, more saturated colour than any cut crystal would, and depth of colour is exactly what a design like this needs against dark metal.
Five colourways are stocked: Green, Grey, Mint, Aqua and Baby Pink. The colour is the teardrop at the top; the metal and the pearl fringe are the same in every one.
These go as happily over a plain black kurta as over bandhani, which is the useful thing about oxidised work: it does not insist on being ethnic. Wear the hair back and keep the throat bare.
They are light enough and informal enough for a working day, which is not true of most jhumkas this size.
No silver, no gemstone, and Keyura does not pretend otherwise. What you are buying is a well-made plated piece with a good stone, priced accordingly.
Oxidising is a deliberate darkening of the surface, not tarnish, and it is the thing that makes the pattern readable. Never clean these with a silver dip — a dip strips the blackening out of the recesses and the design goes flat and grey for good. A dry cotton cloth is all they need. Keep water, perfume and hair spray off them, put them on after you have finished dressing, and store them in a sealed pouch with the air pressed out.
| Metal | Brass |
| Weight (grams) | 22.00 |
| Colour/Finish | Baby Pink |
| Occasion | Festival |
| Gender | women |
| SKU/Product Code | D9-1CE40C6B90 |
