Passiflora Girandoles

A pair of hoop earrings in platinum, old-European-cut diamonds cooler in daylight than you expect, never showy. Whoever made it favoured calibré-cut channel setting. The work is so even you would swear a machine did it, though none then could. It had spent two generations with a Ghent collection before it found its way to us, passed hand to hand and never once sold until now. Pieces like this do not come apart; they were built to be handed on.