Peacock tea service
Fifteen pieces, a peacock on every one, and more gold than anything else we have.
$117
Moonstone collar necklace
$980
Nineteen stones cut so the sheen lifts across all of them at the same angle.
Materials & dimensions
- Nineteen Meetiyagoda blue-sheen moonstones
- Recycled sterling silver
- Hand-cut bezels
15 × 1.4 × 15 cm · 180 g
Care
Moonstone is soft at six on the Mohs scale — store this flat, on its own, in the pouch it arrives in. Warm water and a soft cloth. Never an ultrasonic cleaner. Put perfume on first and let it dry.
Shipping & duties
Free standard shipping
Express $35.10
North America · 180 g · includes $6 for fragile packing
Import duties and taxes are set by United States, not by us. They are not included above, and your carrier collects them on delivery.
The story
Matching one moonstone is a job. Matching nineteen is a different kind of job, and it is the reason this exists as an edition of eight rather than a standing product.
The blue in moonstone appears only along one internal axis, so every stone in a row has to be cut to the same orientation or the sheen switches on and off along the necklace as the wearer turns. Ranjith cuts the whole set together from material he has held back over months, grading for depth of colour first and size second, then orienting each dome against the last one he finished. The nineteen here came out of about sixty candidates.
Graduated, largest at the throat. Bezel-set rather than clawed, because a collar sits against skin and claws catch. Recycled silver, as with everything he makes.
Ranjith Perera
Ratnapura, Sabaragamuwa Province · working since 1988
