Mexican earrings inlaid with shell (mex15)

Mexican earrings inlaid with shell

Mexican earrings inlaid with shell

Black with silver - with a beautiful large near triangle shape in the middle which is inlaid with shell which has the  super irridicsent colours of shell in the shape of a flower which in the light shine pinks, blues & greens.

These earrings are hand made in small workshops in Taxco, in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, an important centre of jewellery making since colonial times.