mayan pendant

A bold collar of natural jade is created by four dark green bezel-set stones. This sterling silver pendant necklace from Guatemala features a design by Zandra Lorena Sajbin, who draws inspiration from traditional Mayan jewelry.

Working in cool sterling silver, the Jimenez Family in Guatemala create this gorgeous pendant necklace. The artisans set the necklace with polished half-cylinders of natural "apple green" jade. To the ancient Maya, ya'ax chich (jade) was a sacred symbol of life, fertility and power, and was reserved for the aristocracy.

"Sugar cane is one of our most important natural products, so we thought we'd celebrate it by designing a collection in its honor," the Jiménez Family explains. The design features half cylinders of lush green jade mined in Guatemala. Sterling silver encasings add to the necklace's spectacular splendor. Regarded as the stone of immortality by the Maya people, jade is said to attract love.

This majestic design comes from the Jimenez Family in honor of K'abel, queen of the Maya. The pendant necklace is hand crafted with seven tubular pendants in different sizes of black jade linked together with sterling silver. The Jimenez Family obtains the jade from Sierra de las Minas, in Guatemala.

K'abel was a renowned warrior queen whose tomb was found in 2012 in the Maya city of El Peru-Waká, in northwestern Petén, Guatemala. Considered one of the greatest of Maya rulers, K'abel was a military governor of the Wak Kingdom who ruled for at least 20 years with her husband, King K'inich Bahlam. She carried the title of supreme warrior or Kalomt'e, which placed her in a higher position of authority, over her husband.

This majestic design comes from the Jimenez Family in honor of K'abel, queen of the Maya. The pendant necklace is hand crafted with seven tubular pendants in different sizes of apple green jade linked together with sterling silver. The Jimenez Family obtains the jade from Sierra de las Minas, in Guatemala.

K'abel was a renowned warrior queen whose tomb was found in 2012 in the Maya city of El Peru-Waká, in northwestern Petén, Guatemala. Considered one of the greatest of Maya rulers, K'abel was a military governor of the Wak Kingdom who ruled for at least 20 years with her husband, King K'inich Bahlam. She carried the title of supreme warrior or Kalomt'e, which placed her in a higher position of authority, over her husband.

The majestic design of this is designed by Guatemala's Jimenez Family in honor of K'abel, queen of the Maya. Falling round the neck like a breastplate, the necklace is crafted by hand with tubular pendants of dark green jade linked together with sterling silver. K'abel was a renowned warrior queen whose tomb was found in 2012 in the Maya city of El Peru-Waká, in northwestern Petén, Guatemala. Considered one of the greatest of Maya rulers, K'abel was a military governor of the Wak Kingdom who ruled for at least 20 years with her husband, King K'inich Bahlam. She carried the title of supreme warrior or kaloomte, which placed her in a higher position of authority, over her husband.

.925 Sterling silver.