1949 Crown Trifari “Schéhérazade” Necklace
United States · Glass
$1,849.95
- Maker
- Crown Trifari
- Origin
- United States
- Era
- Alfred Philippe · 1949
- Materials
- Glass
- Provenance
- Ruby-red glass cabochons on a pendant necklace from the 1949 Moghul India series — the romantic high point of Trifari’s output, and one of the most sought silhouettes of the line.
On this piece
Scheherazade told a thousand and one nights of stories to keep herself alive, and Trifari borrowed her name for the most romantic thing it ever made. This necklace comes from that celebrated 1949 Schéhérazade series — Alfred Philippe’s house at the height of its Mughal-India fever — built around fluted glass cabochons in ruby red and sapphire blue, the colors of a maharaja’s treasury, scattered throughout with crystal rhinestones on Trifari’s warm gold plate. The cabochons aren’t cut to sparkle; they’re molded and fluted to glow, the way a real cabochon ruby does, so the piece reads rich rather than merely bright. It is signed Crown Trifari on the reverse. These 1949 India pieces are among the most sought-after costume jewelry in the world — and a necklace, not a brooch, is the form collectors chase hardest. A story worth telling, worn at the throat.