Teardrop Pearl Earrings

The teardrop is the most flattering shape for an earring — it elongates the line of the neck, draws the eye downward, and creates a vertical emphasis that reads as elegant without being severe. When the teardrop is formed from a freshwater pearl — a genuine baroque pearl that grew in its own natural teardrop shape, rather than being cut or carved into one — the effect is doubly organic: the flattering shape of the teardrop, rendered in the soft, natural form of the pearl. These earrings feature genuine teardrop-shaped freshwater pearls suspended from sterling silver ear wires.

The pearls are genuine freshwater baroque — their teardrop shapes are natural, the result of the mollusk depositing nacre around an elongated irritant. Each pearl is a slightly different shape, a slightly different contour, a slightly different relationship with the light. The sterling silver ear wires are hand-formed, their curves designed to hold each pearl at the exact angle that displays its best surface. The overall effect is classic, elegant, and quietly organic.

• Genuine teardrop-shaped freshwater pearls — naturally formed, not cut
• Hand-formed sterling silver ear wires
• Pearls approximately 8-10mm in length
• Each pearl is unique in shape and luster
• Nickel-free and hypoallergenic

Teardrop pearl earrings are one of the most classic forms in jewelry — worn by brides, by first ladies, by women of every era who understood that the teardrop is the most universally flattering shape. These earrings bring that classic form to everyday wear with the organic, irregular beauty of baroque pearls. Style them with anything — teardrop pearl earrings are the definition of versatility. A piece for the woman who values the classics but prefers them with a touch of the organic, the irregular, the real.