THE ARTIFACT
This white beach tile was reclaimed from the shores of Lake Erie. These hoop-style earrings are wrapped in silver wire with soft pastel bead accents.
DIMENSIONS & SCALE
- Artifact type: reclaimed Lake Erie beach glass
- Artifact size: approximately 0.75 inches tall x 0.5 inches wide (see reference photo with quarter for visual scale)
- Metal: silver wire
- Earring style: hoop
- Drop length: 2 inches
THE ORIGIN
These artifacts often began as early 20th-century architectural porcelain or encaustic tiles from lakeside homesteads and industrial sites, or from crocks or dishware. Over the decades, the relentless churning of the Lake Erie shelf has ‘untamed’ their rigid edges, refining man-made masonry into soft, tactile sea-gems that carry the weight of local history.
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