Brunialti, the definitive authority on American costume jewelry, calls this “the most extraordinary item in the series” — and the series is Crown Trifari’s fabled 1949 Schéhérazade, the house’s Mughal-India masterwork...
Provenance doesn’t get more glamorous than this. These are ultra-rare 1954 Napier basket dangle earrings in the exact style Marilyn Monroe wore on the cover of Movieland that year — the most famous woman in the world,...
The poinsettia is the flower of the season, and Alfred Philippe made it the crown of Trifari’s most demanding craft. This is a masterpiece: a great ruby-red poinsettia rendered entirely in invisibly-set glass — each s...
A single great pearl, and the papers to prove it. This ring from Ming’s of Honolulu centers a magnificent 14mm Tahitian South Sea pearl — the large, naturally dark, iridescent pearl that takes years to grow and comman...
Ming’s of Honolulu was the great Hawaiian jeweler — founded in 1940, beloved for pairing carved jade with gold in a style all its own — and this bangle is one of its most coveted forms. A single band of translucent, m...
This is fine jewelry at its height — no qualifier, no category to grade it on a curve. From Utopia of Milano, a house that shows alongside the great names at the world’s high-jewelry salons, comes a bracelet handmade ...