Art Deco Bird Earrings in Sterling Silver – Chrome Diopside
£250.00
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Wonderful Art Deco Bird earrings –
Made from sterling silver and set with green Chrome Diopside, all in stunning gold-plated star settings. Chrome Diopside comes from Siberia – the chromium gives it the deep vivid green in the same way that emeralds get their colour.
Description
Wonderful Deco Bird earrings – you may see these vivid statement pieces as parrots in the forest…..
Made from sterling silver and set with green Chrome Diopside, all in stunning gold-plated star settings. Chrome Diopside comes from Siberia – the chromium gives it the deep vivid green in the same way that emeralds get their colour.
The body plumage of the birds is picked out intricately with colour contrasting vitreous enamel detailing
3cm in length, with post-and-butterfly attachment.
John Franklin works out of his small home studio in Great Shelford just outside Cambridge, crafting intricate sterling silver jewellery set with boldly colourful gemstones such as Topaz and fancy Garnets.
He graduated with Distinction from Birmingham School of Jewellery in 2019, won the Julia Usher Ashes Memorial Award, and reached the UK final of the World Skills Jewellery competition. He exhibited his final collection at the London New Designers Fair; Cambridge Open Studios; and will be at Desire Winchester.
This has been a big change of direction from a long engineering career. He originally qualified with a Physics PhD from Cambridge, then designed and managed silicon chips on board spacecraft, to 4G and Bluetooth.
However, he has always been interested in the decorative arts and sculpture – first carving animals in stone, such as a bear, swan and parrot. He began to study jewellery in local evening classes in 2014 and found that he loved producing a decorative form from raw metal, and feeling connected to an artisanal world of traditional tools and techniques.
Artistically, he is passionate about the connections between decorative arts movements of different cultures and times – from Islamic tiling of the Ottomans, through Arts and Crafts, to Arts Nouveau and Deco. This informs his use of elegant curves through plant and flower motifs, to stylised forms.
He is also excited by the use of colour, using a wide palette of fancy coloured garnets, topazes, tourmalines, and unusual stones such as chrome diopside. He enjoys adding style to the piece by finding ways to use less common shapes of gemstone such as marquise and baguette to complement and integrate with the form, often inventing unique setting ways to set the stones.
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If an item goes on back order we will ship you the part of your order that is in stock. When the item becomes available we will ship you the rest of your order. You will not be charged any additional shipping and handling for the second shipment.
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The small print – exceptions
It's important that any unwanted item, unless faulty, is returned in a re-saleable condition. We'd expect this to mean that you've kept all original packaging and labels, and that it's undamaged and unused.
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