Duskgild · The Register · Gothic Earrings & Ear Cuffs
Ardent Flaming Heart Stud Earrings with Lab-Created Ruby
925 silver · lab-created ruby · blackened oxidized
Free US shipping · thirty-day returns · twenty-four-hour cancellation · Etsy buyer protection.
Images are AI-generated renders of the design, not photographs of your cast piece — which is made to order in solid 925 sterling silver to this same design.
A heart set alight. An open heart in blackened silver with a small flame rising from its crown and a single red stone caught inside — the sacred heart, worn small at the ear. Ardent means burning: the old word for a love that does not cool.
From the dark register — Duskgild's memento mori line. Each pair is cast in solid 925 sterling silver and oxidized to a deep blackened finish, one round lab-created ruby bezel-set inside each heart. Its kin is Ignis, the flame-crown ring — lit by the same red.
Details
- Solid 925 sterling silver — not plated base metal
- Blackened oxidized finish
- One round lab-created ruby bezel-set in each heart
- Stud posts with butterfly backs
- Sold as a pair · made to order
- Free US shipping
Why you can trust it
- Solid 925 sterling silver. The real metal all the way through, not a coating.
- Any detail of this piece can change. The stone, its colour and cut, the metal finish, the size, the engraving, the proportions — because it is cast after you order, nothing here is fixed. Ask for the changes you want before you buy. Change enough and it stops being this design and becomes yours, at no extra cost beyond what the new piece takes to make.
- Every stone is lab-created and named. No mystery stones, no natural-stone pricing games.
- No plated base metal. Solid sterling all the way through — not silver-coloured brass.
- We tell you how it ages. The dark is an oxidized patina, not a coating — only microns thick. Worn every day it wears brighter along the raised edges while the recesses stay black. That is how oxidized silver ages, and it is not a fault.
- Made to order, and protected. Free US shipping, thirty-day returns, and Etsy buyer protection on every order.
- Wearing it on Halloween? Order by September 23 — it is cast after you order, so that is the last day the making and the post office both fit. Intricate casts take longer; ask us first.
Wearing it
Ardent sits close to the lobe the way a stud should — small enough for every day, dark enough to mean it. The blackened finish keeps the heart quiet until the light finds the lab-created ruby; then it burns. Wear the pair alone, or run them beside a second piercing's plain stud.
Read more: how our lab-created stones are made →
Made to order
Every Duskgild piece is made after you order it — cast in solid 925 sterling silver, hand-oxidized, and shipped — most pieces in 3–4 weeks; intricate casts can take up to 5. Nothing comes off a shelf. Ordering and payment run through our Etsy shop, so buyer protection is handled for you. Want something that isn't in the register? Commission your own piece — bring a reference, a sketch, or three words.
- You place your order
- We cast it in solid 925 sterling silver
- Most pieces ship in 3–4 weeks — intricate designs up to 5
- Free tracked US shipping
- 30 days to return
Keep dry; polish the raised silver gently and leave the oxidized recesses dark — the finish is meant to deepen with wear.
