Egyptian Hathor Turquoise Drop Earrings

$65.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art jewelry makes a unique gift for her. These semiprecious turquoise earrings reimagine a glass cowroid bead (ca. 1550–1425 BCE), or cowry shell-shaped amulet, made in Egypt's New Kingdom and housed at The Met. The brilliant color of our adornments likewise nods to ancient beads of faience (ca. 1550–1295 BCE)—a ceramic material created in brilliant blue hues—which may have belonged to various necklaces given as offerings to Hathor: the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility; the fierce protector of women…