细节
PAIR OF CULTURED PEARL AND DIAMOND EAR CLIPS
Each designed as a circular and tapered baguette-cut diamond and platinum two-tiered frame, with interchangeable gray, white and golden cultured pearl centers, each measuring approximately 12.30 mm (with a fitted screwdriver and additional clips, may be worn without outer frame), in a suede pouch
Mounted by Van Cleef & Arpels, No. NY 4363 S.O.
Convertible jewelry has always been popular. It's adaptability makes an expensive piece of jewelry more useable. At the turn of the century, elegant gem-set tiaras, wearable only on special occasions, could often be disassembled and the elements worn as brooches or necklaces. During the 1930's, double clip brooches were designed with special fittings that could be taken apart and the clips worn as two brooches or attached to a coordinating bracelet. In the 1940's, necklaces could metamorphose into two bracelets. The illustrated ear clips are descendants of this attractive and practical paradigm. Designed with a two-tiered diamond frame, the outer structure may be removed with a fitted screwdriver to make smaller ear clips. The theme is also carried over to the gray, white and gold cultured pearls that are interchangeable. (9)
Each designed as a circular and tapered baguette-cut diamond and platinum two-tiered frame, with interchangeable gray, white and golden cultured pearl centers, each measuring approximately 12.30 mm (with a fitted screwdriver and additional clips, may be worn without outer frame), in a suede pouch
Mounted by Van Cleef & Arpels, No. NY 4363 S.O.
Convertible jewelry has always been popular. It's adaptability makes an expensive piece of jewelry more useable. At the turn of the century, elegant gem-set tiaras, wearable only on special occasions, could often be disassembled and the elements worn as brooches or necklaces. During the 1930's, double clip brooches were designed with special fittings that could be taken apart and the clips worn as two brooches or attached to a coordinating bracelet. In the 1940's, necklaces could metamorphose into two bracelets. The illustrated ear clips are descendants of this attractive and practical paradigm. Designed with a two-tiered diamond frame, the outer structure may be removed with a fitted screwdriver to make smaller ear clips. The theme is also carried over to the gray, white and gold cultured pearls that are interchangeable. (9)