Jing Earrings - brass

Softly sinuous brass earrings, with 6mm sodalite or 6mm amazonite stone. Sterling silver posts and backs. 43mm tall, including the stone, 10mm at widest point and 5mm thick.

Made to order — please allow up to 2 weeks of lead time before shipping. 

Price listed in USD — Canadians who wish to purchase in CAD, please contact info@yuun.studio.

“Jingwei tries to fill the sea”

Young Nüwa was swimming in the Eastern Sea, carefree and flowing — until she was unable to find the shore and drowned. She was then transformed into the bird guardian-spirit Jingwei, whose song recalls her new name. Each day, she carries a pebble or twig from the Western Mountains and drops it into the water — Jingwei is in perpetual assay; she is trying to fill up the Eastern Sea, so that no one would suffer her previous fate.

The Sea mocked her attempts — she will not be able to overwhelm the waters, even in a million years. Jingwei replied that she will persist for ten or even one hundred million years — she will confound even the unbounded.

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The VESSEL collection is a meditation on what it means to hold, figuratively and literally. Aesthetically inspired by the ceramic tradition of China, each piece in the collection is an intimate reminder of presence and essence in our daily.