The Cardinal Girandoles

Look closely and the girandole earrings give themselves away as Retro: large citrines, the honey gold more honest than anything cut today, held by bold sculpted volume. The gallery is sawn through with a saw-blade no thicker than a hair. A dealer we trust brought it down from a Budapest family, kept in a bank drawer far longer than it was ever worn. Nothing about it was made to impress, which is exactly why it does.