# Claddagh Heart Pendant

> Two hands cupping a crowned heart in hand-finished sterling silver: friendship, love and loyalty, the old Galway emblem, just under an inch tall on its own silver chain.

Price: 52.00 USD · in stock

## About
Some gifts say what is hard to say aloud. Two hands cup a crowned heart, rendered in sterling silver and finished by hand: the inner curves of the fingers softened with a file, the heart left with a faint hammered texture that catches the light differently at every angle. Just under an inch tall, it rests at the base of the throat on its included silver chain.The design comes from Claddagh, a small fishing village at the mouth of the River Corrib outside Galway, where it has been worked in gold and silver since at least the seventeenth century. Its meaning is plain: hands for friendship, a heart for love, a crown for loyalty. Legend credits Richard Joyce, a Galway goldsmith said to have made it after years of captivity abroad, though the form is older than any one story. The ring's old rule, heart turned in for taken and out for free, does not apply to a pendant, so this one suits a gift between friends, a keepsake from a parent, or a piece for yourself.DetailsSterling silver throughout, hallmarked on the reverseHand-filed and hand-finished, with a hammered heartJust under an inch tall, on an included silver chainBoxed for giftingA small, old promise, worn where it can be seen or kept for the one day a year it matters most.