Silver with vermeil and turquoise
These stylish earrings feature a coin with a calligraphic impression of the poetry of Rumi, a Persian poet widely admired in the rest of the world. Coins are often worn as decorative elements forming parts of headdresses, hats and clothes. The textured coin and the bezel are finished in gold vermeil.
Persia has been an important source of turquoise for at least 2,000 years its pure, “robin’s egg blue” color earned the highest prices on the world market.. It was initially named “pirouzeh” (victory) by the Persians and, later, “firouzeh.”. In Iranian architecture, the blue turquoise was used to cover the domes of palaces because its intense blue colour was also a symbol of heaven on earth. The western name for turquoise comes from the country, Turkey, which traded Iranian firouzeh with Europe.
POETRY TRANSLATION
RUMI: I HAVE A CAVE (FROM PERSIAN)
You are my cave. You are my friend. Enslave me and defend me.
O only Noah that I know, O opener now open,
O heart restored before the secret door where you befriend me!
You are the light, the banquet night, the victim’s victory.
You are the hoopoe bird of Sinai, set to swoop and rend me.
You are the stream. You are the sea. You are the lenient tyrant.
You are the poison and the sugar. Friend, do not torment me.
You are the chamber of the sun, the stations of the stars,
You are the prairie green with hope. Show me the way and send me.
You are my dawn, my Ramadan, the alms that I begged for and won.
You are the jar. You are the water. Slake me with water. Mend me.
Please note that depending on the design, size and finish of a piece, only fragments of the words may be visible.
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