A pair of gold-tone drop earrings resting on a textured stone block over cream fabric, each earring carved with a seated figure above two facing peacocks, set with pink-red and colourless stones and hung with green and white beads.

Earrings

Peacock Temple Drops

₹20,900

Tiered gold-tone drops, each carved with a seated figure above a facing pair of peacocks. Green and white beads finish the lower edge, and the scale places these with occasion dress rather than daily wear.

Metal
Argentium 96096% silver. Sterling silver is 92.5%.
Finish
18k gold vermeilRe-coated by the house for life.
Stones
Pink gemstone, Colourless stone, Green gemstone
Mark
Argentium-stamped.
Skin
Designed nickel-free, for sensitive skin.
Availability
Made to order

Delivered worldwide. Everything leaves the bench through nine inspections.

The material

Argentium 960

96% silver

Sterling silver is 92.5%.

Argentium is a modern silver alloy: germanium in place of part of the copper that sterling uses. That substitution is the whole of the difference, and it is decided at the alloy rather than applied to the surface afterwards.

The alloy
Germanium in place of part of the copper.
The source
A UK supplier, and alloys in development with them.
The mark
Stamped Argentium on everything made in it.