Help please with Schiaparelli earrings

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I don't know vintage jewelry all that well, and I have a beautiful, and to me, unusual pair of earrings marked Schiaparelli.

From what I can tell, they date from the 1950s. The metal is antiqued-looking silvertone. The stones are unusual colors and shapes, one big rootbeer teardrop with back faceting, three amber-colored stones in a marquise shape but completely without faceting. Their backs are rounded like their fronts. The small round faceted stone is pale yellow.

Can anyone tell me more about these? Were these from the licensed period of Schiap's career, or could she have had more stake in their design? Is there a proper name for these stone shapes, colors and the metal?

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They're 50s, licensed--and very desirable because it's still possible to put together a parure of this set in its various colors. I once had a bracelet, huge pin, earrings and necklace in red. I've seen it in blue, lilac, pastel green, gray/blacks, I think pink.
 
Oh! I want a Schiap bag! And the rest of these earrings' parure!

Thank you for the further info all. I see online sellers describing 50s Schiap jewelry in very high terms, and asking really big prices. I thought I'd better try to get the listing right.
 
Very nice Maggie!

Not much to add except I would mention that the stones are prong set, and I'd call the marquise shaped stones "navettes" and the round faceted one a chaton or round. The unfoiled stones are cabochon cut rhinestones. I'd also give the dimensions. The colors are citrine and topaz.
They are C. 1950's. They are from the licensed period which began in 1949. I have one pair of Schiap earrings in my personal collection and have done very nicely with others I've found.

Linn
 
Wow, I'm really going to impress with my knowledge now! ;) Thank you Linn!

Thank you Dana! I'm glad these work, because I'm not really a jewelry photographer~
 
Your pictures are great, Maggie. I use a scanner most of the time. (And Photoshop Elements.) Clear rhinestones are very hard to capture with a scanner or a camera. I've had the most success with a scanner using a black background or going outside with a camera and shooting in natural light.

Linn
 
You should see the Schiap set my friend Sheree has.....the necklace is silvertone, jointed and all surrealist shaped, jagged and zig-zaggy with mammoth clear rhinestones, matching earrings that are equally as huge. I gasped when I saw it.....its insane.

Ang
 
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