Floating Pearl Earrings

Each earring opens with a baroque freshwater pearl at the top — irregular, cream-white, iridescent — connected to a length of silver stainless steel curb chain that falls below it. A second baroque pearl closes the drop at the bottom. The chain between them is visible, structural, intentional. Long, lightweight, and easy to wear.

• Elements: Freshwater baroque pearls (Irregular), stainless steel curb chain, silver fish hook earwires
• Size: Long drop earrings
• Rarity: One piece.
• Associations: Cancer (Pearl)

Express your natural beauty with GAIA pieces, handcrafted with care in Egypt.

The pearl was the only gemstone made by a living creature — and for that reason alone, it commanded a price no other stone could match in the ancient world. Pliny the Elder placed it above all others, documenting how Roman women wore pearl jewelry as the ultimate display of wealth and refinement. Harvested from the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the coasts of India, pearls moved through trade routes long before most gemstones were even named. (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 77 AD)