Sardine Necklace | Lucky Fish Talisman

The sardine is among the most abundant fish in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, schooling in numbers that have fed coastal populations for millennia. In the cultures of the Mediterranean littoral — Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Greek, North African — the sardine is not a humble food. It is the food of the sea at its most reliable: the fish that arrives in season, that can be preserved through the winter, that has never failed the people who knew where to find it. The luck the sardine represents is not random fortune. It is the luck of knowing your sea well enough to be where the fish are when they arrive.

The silver color of the sardine — the same iridescent scale-flash that makes a school of sardines visible from above — is the color of the moon, of the receptive principle, of the material that reflects rather than generates light. The lucky fish is the fish that is where the light finds it.

925 sterling silver base. Suspended on a matching chain.