How do you measure a body of work?

For much of the jewelry world, its a hard question to answer.

Below, we delve deeper into some of the magnificent pieces featured.

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The individual gold concave and convex discs are studded with diamonds.

Its shown here on the April 1956 cover ofVoguewith two models in red dresses and embellished hats.

This diamond and sapphire brooch shown in aVogueimage in 1937 is large in sizerealistically life-size, really.

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