*New* gold-filled collection!  I've finally taken the plunge into a small collection of gold-filled jewelry and had to pair it with one of my favorite components, ancient glass.  These simple and elegant earrings feature beautiful pale chartreuse ancient glass suspended inside my signature gold-filled hoops.

Ancient glass shards and components are excavated in Afghanistan, along the Silk Road, a network of trade routes that connected cultures and merchants and spanned from the 2^nd century BCE to the 18^th century.  The glass originated in Rome, where glassware became popularized during the Roman Empire with the invention of glass blowing, around 50 BCE.  Glassware was brought into the homes of most Romans and used on a daily basis. It was also traded along the Silk Road.  These fragments of glass are repurposed from broken vessels that were buried for hundreds of years along the Silk Trade Road and today are made into beads.  Because it is excavated in Afghanistan, I am choosing to call it “ancient glass” instead of “ancient Roman glass.”

Earrings measure 1 1/2" from top of earwire.  All metal used is gold-filled, which is many many layers of 14 karat gold over a core of base metal, so many that it never wears off and is safe for those sensitive to metals.