Shab Noir Necklace with Shab Warq Earrings

Shab, the Urdu word for night, and Noir, the French word for black, together give this necklace its name and its character. A sweeping bib of open gold latticework unfolds across the neckline, its pavé-set leaf and petal framework alive with prong-set black zirconia teardrops that deepen in colour as they gather toward the centre. Clusters of round white zirconia bloom at the heart of the composition, their brilliance made more luminous by the darkness surrounding them, like stars appearing only after nightfall.Warq in Urdu means leaf, and the Shab Warq earrings begin their story there. A single black zirconia teardrop stud gives way to a slender pavé stem of gold leaves set with white zirconia, each leaf traced in light. The stem descends into a full floral bloom of black teardrop zirconia petals fanning outward around a luminous cluster of round white zirconia at the centre, a night garden caught in the stillness just before dawn.