diamond earrings

Dramatic and lyrical: These beautiful diamond earrings are suspended from old mine cut stones. From them hang down old brilliant cut diamonds designed to suggest flowers and foliage joined together by ribbons. As an exclamation point, the earrings terminate in a pear- shaped diamond drop. The earrings are mounted in silver and have gold backs. The open- set diamonds total app. 7.4 carats, H-K, VS-SI), later earring fittings, Netherlands, mid 19th century.

weight: 10 grams
dimensions: 5 x 1.8 grams