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Exquisite Demi Parure Elsa Schiaparelli Brooch (Pendant) & Earrings credited to designer Jean Schlumberger No Reserve!! Bought at an estate sale 24 years ago--I have worn it twice and both times, it was mistaken for platinum and diamonds! Measures 3" x 2.5" (pin) and each earring is almost 1.5" long with 1/2"width of the big pearl on bottom Wonderful swing and bounce (and so reflection) off the earrings (but so hard to photograph flat!) Marked Schiaparelli in the script on the back of the pin and the earrings are not marked E xcellent Condition--see photos such sparkle--I just went back and went over all the items with a jeweler's loop and I see that one of the little faux diamonds on one of the earrings disappeared from the jewelry chest to the ebay box! This little rhinestone could be easily replaced and no other stones are missing. The pin clasp works perfectly as do the earrrings clasp (they are tight and work well but do not pinch). I looked closely at the pearls and they seem to be fine. I thought I saw a tiny mark or two on one of the pearls on one earring (through the jeweler's loop) but now I can't find it. So in light of these things, I just went back and lowered the listing price to $49.99. can be worn as a pin or a necklace and earrings are clip-ons Antique jewelry collectors have told me that Jean Schlumberger designed this piece when he worked for Schiaparelli and then when he went to work for Tiffany's he designed the same set in rubies, diamonds, and platinum. Tiffany's said they would be happy to research it and could confirm or deny it because they have his a record of all his pieces.
Jean Schlumberger This article appeared in the Heritage section of the August issue of JCK: SCHLUMBERGER: CELEBRATING NATURE by Peggy Jo Donahue, special projects editor Though separated by two world wars and a European continent, French jeweler Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) and Russian master Peter Carl Faberge shared one common trait: both celebrated nature with startlingly imaginative designs. While Faberge eschewed big expensive colored stones, however, Schlumberger, living in more colored stone-accessible times, adored them. .............From buttons and beads to the Emerald City: Jean Schlumberger's career took off when, at the ripe old age of 30, he left behind his job at an art publisher to join Parisian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1937. The famous couturiere asked him to make buttons and costume jewelry to complement her designs. ........ . In 1955, Walter Hoving of Tiffany & Co. asked Schlumberger to become staff designer. The now-famous designer was given his own department and made deputy chairman of the Fifth Avenue jeweler. For the next 20 years, he designed at his peak, becoming a good friend of Diana Vreeland, the editor of Vogue, and an outfitter to craftsmen was to create pieces that invoked drama through movement, volume and color. Sometimes his master workers, who were used to his vivid imagination, would look at his drawings with disbelief. "We all work together, the craftsmen, my collaborators and myself...Sometimes we guide each other into unknown paths, and after groping about, trying this and that, making models and exerting our willpower, we find the key to success, even if it means suffering...Sometimes we ask them to do things they think are impossible, but which -- after a lot of experimentation and tenacity -- turn out to be possible," Schlumberger once said. media stars such as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Movement! Volume! Color! Like the "Lights! Camera! Action!" command on a movie set, Schlumberger's command to his jeweler Movement. What did Schlumberger mean by movement? Imagining the constant workings of nature, the great artist created pieces that showed branches intertwining, vines creeping, blossoms unfolding and stems surging upward toward an ever-present sun . His animals were equally alive, whether butterflies fluttering, fish shimmering through water or bugs creeping forward on an imaginary leaf. Sc... 
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