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...The sculptural motif of pear-shaped, round and marquise-cut diamonds, set at odd angles around a necklace, was a technical as well as creative feat....
...The ring was set with a diamond and sapphire, both pear-shaped, nestling close to each other....
...In Cartier’s latest high-jewellery collection, Le Voyage Recommencé, the ever-present and iconic panther appears as a sculpted black-nephrite jade, set as a brooch, in white gold, adorned with a single pear-shaped...
...Its rhodium-plated white gold tiara with spray motif is set with more than 24 carats of rose-cut, pear-shaped diamonds in a wishbone style....
...Tiffany & Co white-gold Tiffany T T1 ring, £2,125, and gold and silver Square Signet ring, £1,250 Yuto Ebihara The 20-year-old Tokyo-born marketing/psychology student got into modelling a year ago and...
...The new chain bracelets and pendants feature a graphic, curved pink- or white-gold bar, with a tiny pear-shaped diamond winking at the end like a drop of dew, “placed just beyond the wrist bone to elongate...
...It is also the central feature of the New Padma suite rings, juxtaposed with pavé-set diamonds lying under unctuous drops of rock crystal – and intended to be worn by the fistful....
...For each retro plate was dressed with a starched napkin encased in an 18-karat-gold ring; candles glimmered from golden holders; parmesan and pepper were available for sprinkling from miniature gold platters...
...“They’re elegant and simple yet stylish,” she says of the teardrop earrings crafted from 18-karat gold and faceted with 617 sparkling white diamonds that brilliantly reflect the light....
...A surprisingly modern design for its time, it has a tiara with nine detachable stars mounted in silver and gold; a necklace with five stars of its own; and a pair of pear-shaped diamond pendants....
...The rectangular burnt-yellow/orange stone is surrounded by tiny round brilliant-cut diamonds and set lengthways on an 18ct yellow gold openwork wheatsheaf design with marquise-cut white diamonds....
...The highlight is a diamond-covered white gold ring, topped by a 8.61ct fancy purplish-pink pear-shaped diamond....
...; a 50-carat D flawless heart-shaped diamond ring; and a yellow and white diamond necklace with an internally flawless pear-shape drop....
...This Attirante brooch in 18-carat yellow gold draws on a ribbon motif (like Soie Dior), and is set with a 5-carat red spinel, four pear-cut orange topazes, four Sri Lankan yellow sapphires, 29 yellow sapphires...
...necklace, earring and ring set (€150,000)....
...Graff has used 648 marquise-cut and pear-shaped diamonds, and 105 emeralds, rubies and sapphires in the butterfly wings....
...The unique piece sets a pear-shaped tsavorite in a white diamond V against a wide black onyx and gold cuff. The piece was sold the day it was unveiled....
...He is open to the “special powers and energies” of stones and, to mark the current Chinese Year of the Snake, he has created a spectacular purple amethyst snake ring....
...A 22-karat gold ring topped with tourmaline and amethyst held a hidden hinge which revealed a hollow compartment clustered with spinels in an intimation of poison....
...Norman Silverman, a Los Angeles-based diamond jewellery manufacturer, unveiled earrings made of large, yellow, pear-shaped diamonds, topped with smaller white pear-shaped diamonds and surrounded by white...
...dome of crystal along a yellow-gold-and- yellow-diamond bracelet....
...Taylor’s taste for big matching suites and plentiful yellow gold has fallen from favour and none of the houses she patronised such as Bulgari, Cartier, or Van Cleef and Arpels suggests that, even if spectacular...
...gold lobster shaped ring....
...The “attrae-moi..si tu m’aimes” sets 68 diamonds to form the body of a bee with a sizeable 3.08 carat pear-cut diamond for its body. POA....
...The Thing Around Your Neck By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fourth Estate, £14.99 Following the success of her Orange Prize-winning Half of a Yellow Sun, Nigerian author Adichie has concentrated on the short...
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