The Olenska Crest Drop Earrings
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Ships byAug 05 - Aug 09
Countess Ellen Olenska arrives in Edith Wharton's New York already carrying the wrong kind of glamour, European, a little too knowing, dressed for a world the old families half admire and half fear. This earring has the same effect. An ornate gold crest, twisted rope and small florets of pearl, green and amber crystal, gathers into a single blue point at the top, then drops, by way of a gold cap, into a heavy round bead of lapis lazuli.
It is a lot of earring, in the best sense, layered and detailed enough to earn a second look across a room. The lapis swings with real weight, cool and deep blue against the throat.
Wear it the way Ellen wore her own reputation, unbothered, a little foreign to the room, entirely herself.