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This surrealistic handcrafted faux-sapphire-topped-pearl cluster brooch and clip-earrings set dates to around WWII, when fashion designer Elsa Sch...

These post-WWII high-end Vendome hand-wired clip earrings each feature a spray of yellow-gold gilt-metal leaves with a stylized branch and five prong-set clear crystals among a clust...

While making similar mid-century haute-couture costume jewelry for Christian Dior, designer Max Muller based near Kaufbeuren, Western Germany, created these dramatic clear-crystal si...

These Hattie Carnegie multicolor glass, crystal and gilt-metal earrings notably include her script last-name signature without copyright symbol that was used on clips before her deat...

While making similar Christian Dior haute-couture costume-jewelry in mid-century, designer Max Muller based near Kaufbeuren, Western Germany, created these exceptionally clear crysta...

In 1956 when Christian Dior's ultra-feminine New Look had dominated fashion for nearly a decade, Schreiner New York handcrafted these opulent unsigned earrings with 22 prong-set open-back crystals to accompany the evening-wear of an American high-end fashion designer. They may have been for client Pauline Trigere when her ready-to-wear collections with accessories including unmarked-Schreiner jewelry were sold by NYC's Bergdorf Goodman and worn by her clients including Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Elizabeth Taylor. Comparatively, Schreiner jewelry produced in the 1950s for direct sale to high-end department stores, such as Neiman Marcus, Henri Bendel and Saks Fifth Avenue, were the only pieces to include a brand signature. Using the best quality European crystals that were custom-made for him, the founder Henry Schreiner was among the world's leading glass-jewelry designers before he died in 1954, whereafter his daughter and her husband continued with their handcrafted production. The family shared this distinction with Western Germany-based Max Muller and Paris-based Roger Jean Pierre, who were commissioned to create haute-couture pieces for the world's leading fashion houses. Notably in 1949, Henry Schreiner was commissioned by Dior to create several exclusive pieces. We know these earrings were not created earlier than 1956 because of the use of iridescent coating on some of the crystals that produces a rainbow effect. Known as aurora-borealis (AB) stones, Swarovski initially produced them exclusively for a haute-couture collection that year by Dior. Shortly thereafter, the Schreiner team had access to such colorful stones, and most certainly used them as soon as possible to enable their American fashion-designer clients to compete with the new Dior iridescent-colors trend. As Schreiner introduced its "ruffle" settings in 1957, we can see that they evolved from a smaller ruffle the year prior that is present on the tips of the marquise-shaped pale yellow stones...

The cluster model earrings with pear-cut diamonds and emeralds, with two brilliant-cut diamonds in the center. N ° 10 pear cut diamonds total weight 8.50 ct N ° 2 brilliant cut diam...

The are earrings are formed by a rectangle of diamonds with 6 navette cut diamonds in the center. The total weight of the diamonds is: ct 1.50. The earrings have a clip and pin clo...

The earrings are each made up of 2 rows of baguette-cut diamonds and 2 diamond-cut files, the total weight of the diamonds is ct 2.60. Their shape is semi-circle. The closure is wit...

Drop-shaped pendant earrings, entirely pierced with emerald pave with a total weight of 16.74 ct and diamonds with a total weight of 1.63 ct. The earrings are in burnished 18 Kt whi...

Enchanting blue topaz earrings in 18 carat white gold with diamond details. Esther Eyre has been designing and making precious jewellery for over twenty years. She trained at Kings...

Shield domed earrings in 22 karat gold with granulation and rubies .35carats posts and omega back clips in 18 Karat gold. the earrings are 7/8 o...