1930s KTF Trifari Floral Dress Clip
United States
$3,189.95
- Maker
- KTF TRIFARI
- Origin
- United States
- Era
- KTF Trifari · 1930s
- Condition
- Pre-owned - Good
- Provenance
- A double floral spray with glass-bead centers on wire stems and ruby-red navette rhinestone — early KTF-era Trifari at the moment the house was defining American costume jewelry.
On this piece
A dress clip is a lost art — a brooch built to grip the neckline of a 1930s gown — and this KTF Trifari is among the most magnificent ever made. A double floral spray rises on wire stems, glass beads at the heart of each bloom, ruby-red navette rhinestones tipping the petals, all framed in pavé crystal and baguettes across a cool silver-rhodium finish. This is the golden age of costume jewelry, when Trifari’s KTF workshop under Alfred Philippe made pieces to rival the Paris houses stone for stone. It’s signed with the early KTF hallmark collectors prize most. There’s honest age to a few of the pavé stones, the patina of ninety years, but the presence is undimmed: it reads across a room. Wear it on a lapel or at a shoulder and you’re not accessorizing. You’re wearing a piece of history.