Stainless Steel Pendant
Stainless Steel Pendant. A budding love affair between fashion and nature grows from this elegant piece. Fashionably chic, you’ll find every excuse to wear the stunning floral necklace with the Lapis Lazuli single bead in the center. Crafted in stainless steel, you’ll have a durable and hypoallergenic piece you can enjoy for years to come, 18 inches with an extender, lobster claw clasp, NEW
Lapis lazuli – Lapis beads have been found at neolithic burials in Mehrgarh, the Caucasus, and even as far from Afghanistan as Mauritania. It was used for the eyebrows, among other features, on the funeral mask of Tutankhamun (1341–1323 BC).
At the end of the Middle Ages, lapis lazuli began to be exported to Europe, where it was ground into powder and made into ultramarine, the finest and most expensive of all blue pigments. It was used by some of the most important artists of the Renaissance and Baroque, including Masaccio, Perugino, Titian and Vermeer, and was often reserved for the clothing of the central figures of their paintings, especially the Virgin Mary.
Today mines in northeast Afghanistan and Pakistan are still the major source of lapis lazuli. Important amounts are also produced from mines west of Lake Baikal in Russia, and in the Andes mountains in Chile. Smaller quantities are mined in Italy, Mongolia, the United States and Canada.