The Rose Quartz & Pearl Flower Earrings feature sterling silver, freshwater pearl, and rose quartz, with a bold timeless look. 
 
The Gemological Institute of America traces rose quartz use back roughly 9,000 years, with beads recovered from Mesopotamian sites and Assyrian rose quartz jewelry appearing by 800-600 ВСЕ. Romans used the stone as a personal seal to mark ownership, while Egyptians carved it into amulets and cosmetic masks believed to slow aging. In Greek myth, its blush color was said to come from the mingled blood of Aphrodite and Adonis, which is how rose quartz became tied to love.
 
Pearls were already luxury goods in the Mediterranean world by the third millennium BCE, and Roman status anxiety around them ran so high that Julius Caesar restricted who was permitted to wear them by rank. Romans dedicated pearls to Venus, born from a shell in myth, and early Christian writers later adopted the pearl as an emblem of purity. Because a pearl forms slowly, in layers, inside a living mollusk, cultures as different as ancient Rome and imperial China both came to read it as a symbol of patience and accumulated wisdom.