original earrings

With a sardonic smile, silver skulls dance on sterling wires. Nyoman Rena crafts these original earrings by hand with immortal fascination.

.925 Sterling silver

These intriguing dangle earrings are the original design of Balinese artisan Made Wardika. Carefully carved from smooth white bone, skulls suspend sterling silver feathers and sleek lengths of chain. Topping the skulls are faceted round garnets. The earrings swing from sterling silver hooks.

Crowned with gleaming flowers, doves guard all-seeing hearts the dramatic design of these pair of earrings. Maria Belen Nilson celebrates Mexican artistry through her original jewellery collections, creating sterling silver earrings with classic details enhanced by a combined finish.

Sporting dangly earrings of natural turquoise, this Catrina is glamorous. The talented Oscar Figueroa Escorcia in Mexico crafts this original pendant necklace from Taxco sterling silver, with oxidized areas enhancing the detail. The pendant centres a sterling cable chain.

The original "La Calavera Catrina" was a zinc etching created by the artist José Guadalupe Posada in Mexico around 1910. Posada created the character, a female skeleton with an elegant hat, as a satirical portrait of Mexican natives who aspired to European style and denied their own heritage. The catrina has since become an emblem of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration and a popular folk art subject.

The coquettish image of the Catrina inspires Roy Nilson's Day of the Dead jewellery collection. Catrina is the original creation of José Guadalupe Posadas, renowned author, journalist and political cartoonist (1852-1913). He is credited for popularizing the Day of the Dead celebrations, especially through the creation of skeletal cartoons that capture the Mexican attitude towards death. The most renowned of these is the Catrina, (meaning "dapper"), and she is always elegantly dressed featuring a wide brimmed hat with colourful flowers.

.925 Sterling silver.

Part of NOVICA's Dia de los Muertos collection.