Roshan Ara - Turquoise and White Topaz Silver Necklace

From the Jahan collection by Orah Jewels and Crafts, Roshan Ara is a silver pendant set with turquoise and white topaz, pairing dense color with clear brilliance in a design drawn from the glazed tile work of the Shah Jahan Mosque in Thatta, built between 1644 and 1647 and still holding the most elaborate tile craft in the subcontinent.

Turquoise is a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminum, its sky blue produced by the copper bound into the stone's structure. The turquoise in Roshan Ara is sourced from Iran, from the Neyshabur mines in Khorasan province, the source that has supplied the world's finest turquoise for over two thousand years and reached Sindh along the same Persian trade routes that carried the tile craft used at Shah Jahan Mosque.

Set beside the turquoise is white topaz, an aluminum silicate that forms inside granite pegmatites, large slow cooling pockets of mineral rich melt that give a crystal time to grow clear and well formed. Without the trace elements that tint other topaz blue or golden, the white variety relies on cut and clarity for its brilliance. The white topaz in Roshan Ara is sourced from the Skardu Valley in Gilgit Baltistan, a region whose pegmatite fields have produced some of Pakistan's clearest topaz for decades.

At 9.1 inches, Roshan Ara sets the two stones close together, letting the dense blue of the turquoise and the clear sparkle of the topaz read as a single point of light rather than two separate materials. Made in Lahore at the Orah Jewels and Crafts facility. One piece.

Stones: Natural Turquoise (Iran) and White Topaz (Skardu Valley, Gilgit Baltistan)
Metal: Sterling Silver
Size: 9.1 Inches
Weight: 6.89 g