{"product_id":"ladybug-tsavorite-sapphire-diamond-earrings-18k-gold","title":"Ladybug Tsavorite, Sapphire \u0026 Diamond Earrings 18k Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e18k Yellow Gold Earrings. 52 Round Tsavorite Garnets, 0.66 carats. 12 Round Sapphires, 0.26 carats. 10 Round Diamonds, 0.21 carats. 1.13 carats total.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA ladybug is a difficult thing to build in stones. The shape is instantly recognizable, which means there is no margin — get one proportion wrong and it stops reading as a ladybug and starts reading as a mistake. Seventy-four stones go into this pair, set into 18k yellow gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTsavorite is the stone worth understanding here. It is a green grossular garnet, found in the Tsavo region of Kenya in the late 1960s, and in clean material it is rarer than emerald — which is why almost nobody is offering it to you. It also arrives at market completely untreated, which is true of very few colored stones. Because garnet has a higher refractive index than emerald, tsavorite returns more light, and that matters enormously at this scale: 0.66 carats spread across 52 small stones would go dark and flat in a lesser green. These stay lit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSapphires and diamonds carry the rest of the design. Sapphire is corundum at 9 on the Mohs scale and tsavorite sits at 7 to 7.5, so this is a pair you can wear without thinking about them, which is the correct way to own earrings this small.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLadybugs are worn for luck nearly everywhere — mariquita, coccinella, Marienkäfer, every language names them affectionately. That is usually the real reason someone chooses this pair, and it is a good one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiamond Tales curates fine jewelry meant to last a lifetime and carry a story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diamond Tales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47979802263706,"sku":"AH7601","price":2925.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/5054\/4282\/files\/ladybug-ruby-diamond-earrings-18k-gold.jpg?v=1778288500","url":"https:\/\/www.diamondtales.com\/products\/ladybug-tsavorite-sapphire-diamond-earrings-18k-gold","provider":"DIAMOND TALES","version":"1.0","type":"link"}