14kt Yellow Gold Opal Earrings

These 14-karat yellow gold earrings are set with natural opal.

Opal is hydrated silica that can break white light into a play of living color, a fire no two stones repeat; it holds up to a fifth of its weight in water, which is why it glows in a way nothing crystalline does.

Gold around a natural colored stone, the kind of piece given to mark something and worn long after the day it marked. Hand-finished and photographed by Caveman Gems in good light, shown as honestly as a screen allows.