Retrato Silente

Retrato Silente, The 2N Signature Collection, is a pair of pear-diamond earrings, photographed exactly as they will reach you and sold exactly as they stand. Its name in Spanish means a silent portrait, the painting of a woman who has been looking out of her frame for two hundred years and has never once given away what she was thinking. It is for the woman who keeps her counsel.

Two pear-shaped IGI Certified Premium Lab Grown Diamonds carry 1.25 carats between them, graded F in color and VS in clarity, with an Ideal cut and Excellent polish and symmetry. Ten smaller diamonds accompany them, so that twelve stones carry 1.5 carats in all, set in 14K White Gold. The pear is a teardrop with a point, and in a pair they frame the face as the border of a portrait frames a picture. The small stones glimmer around them like the gilding on the edge of an old canvas.

A portrait is a particular kind of jewelry occasion. It records what a woman chose to wear when she wished to be remembered, and it shows her at her most composed. Earrings in such a painting are always modest in size and exact in placement, and they light the face from the side like a window left slightly open. Retrato Silente is made to that tradition, tall, bright and entirely discreet.

You want them for the composure. The two clean drops. The gleam of the small stones at the edge. The thought of your own face in a mirror, framed, as in a gallery. I deserve it. I can have it. I want it. Say it without a sound, as the woman in the painting would, and see how much it conveys.

Fortune has long been recorded in portraits, because those who had it wished it to be seen. Pearls, rubies and diamonds in the frame were the official evidence. This pair is a keepsake in the portraitist's sense: it is the detail that tells the viewer everything about the sitter, without a caption.

Wear them for the love that says little and means all of it, and let their elegance be framed, pale and composed, like the border of an old and valued picture. They are sold exactly as photographed, in the metal shown, with no changes. If you would like anything altered, the Private Collection is made for exactly that.

Packed and insured, the very pair in the photographs is hung ready for the next sitting, and the portrait it frames will be your own. Retrato Silente priced at $1,134. Buy Now, Pay Later takes you straight to your cart, and there is no reason not to be remembered well.