Tear Drop Earrings: Black

$62.00

Item # 1064-F

Large tear-shaped drops of lustrous, pastel hued glass set in a frame of matte gold-plated bronze, are suspended from gold plated French hook ear wires.

Using a knowledge of glass working garnered from studies with America's top glass artists at prestigious institutions like the Corning and Urban Glass program, and jewelry design working on collections with his father for world renowned museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the artist fuses cast bronze support layered in gold and silver with richly hued cast glass elements in geometric arrays to create jewelry both fresh, fun, artistic, and elegant.

Hand cast glass
Matte gold plating over cast bronze
Gold filled sterling silver hook ear wires
1.375 × 0.5 in.

Michael Vincent Michaud is notably unique in his process of cast glass, a technique not typically utilized in jewelry design. The cast glass he creates resembles beautiful pieces of natural sea glass, each with their own shape, texture and color. Through this craft, Michael is able to capture bold colors and textures which, when hit with radiant light, make each glass element of the jewelry glisten and glow.Surrounded by the skilled craftsmen at his father's studio, Michael was inspired by t

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