Designed with a cluster of marquise cut sapphires set above single cut round diamond accents and suspending two dangles set with round cut sapphires and with a marquise cut sapphire drop, completed with screw backs stamped 14K and with a maker's mark and earrings with obscured numbering. Sapphires weigh approximately 6.44 total carats; diamonds weigh approximately .14 total carat (H-J color, SI-I clarity).

2 1/8 in.

7.7 dwt.

Sapphires display a blue hue, medium dark tone and moderately strong to strong saturation.

Private Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina

Some stones with nicks visible under magnification; top sapphire with lean.