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Pierced earrings with blue Lapis Lazuli inlaid into 18 Karat yellow gold frames. These earring measure 12 x 12 millimeters.
Lapis lazuli is a stone prized since antiquity for its intense blue color.
The finest color is intense blue, lightly dusted with small flecks of golden
pyrite. Lapis lazuli has been mined in the Badakhshan province
of Afghanistan for 6,500 years. Trade in the stone is ancient enough
for lapis jewelry to have been found at Predynastic Egyptian sites, and
lapis beads at neolithic burials in Mehrgarh, the Caucasus, and even as
far from Afghanistan as Mauritania.
The Romans believed that lapis was a powerful aphrodisiac. In the Middle
Ages, it was thought to keep the limbs healthy, and free the soul from
error, envy and fear.
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$745. CAD
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