Cuteness personified
The pixies dance in tandem on a Cartier brooch, all set to hop, skip, and jump without a care in the world, expressions of joy on their tiny faces in the midst of their frolics, prompting smiles, their tiny sapphire eyes glittering. Their hinged heads and legs swivel and they sport fluted dresses and wildly windswept hair. Chopard excels with its jovial clown series of pendants; jaunty articulated limbs surround glazed compartments that jingle jangle with floating diamond bezels. Van Cleef & Arpels offers a brooch design reminiscent of a happy court jester or the joker on a pack of cards.
Cuddle alert
Everybody loves pandas, this time in a ring designed as a wee baby bear with contrasting white and black diamonds. From Van Cleef & Arpels, we can admire a petite pin fashioned as a bear cub, with pavé-set yellow sapphire body, pavé-set diamond head, emerald eyes, and black enamel nose. An adorable grouping of mice created from shapely pearls is more welcomed on a lapel than in the kitchen larder. Then there’s the ‘Disneyfication’ of luxury items, such as a pair of ear clips depicting a highly sculpted Mickey Mouse, or maybe it’s actually Minnie, with dangly hoop earrings and gemstone studs in its petite ears. Earrings wearing earrings! You have to smile at the thought of it.
Escape from the serious and head to the frivolous. Impeccable sophistication abounds in petite treasures with cheerful motifs. Assure your clients they can charmingly harness the power of the whimsical to overcome negativity and bring a smile, a chuckle, and a grin.
Ron Dupuis is a gemmologist and graduate jeweller with 35 years’ experience in the international auction market. He is president and CEO of Toronto-based Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers and can be reached at ron@dupuis.ca.
