Perpetua, 1818

The whole point of these Retro hoop earrings is restraint — large citrines, the honey gold more honest than anything cut today, and nothing more than bold sculpted volume. The work is so even you would swear a machine did it, though none then could. The last owner was a house in the Tyrol; with a note in the box naming the woman who first wore it. Pieces like this do not come apart; they were built to be handed on.