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Lot 70

Jacqueline Kennedy's Simulated Pearl and Diamond Earclips
1950s

29 September – 9 October 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £12,800 inc. premium

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Jacqueline Kennedy's Simulated Pearl and Diamond Earclips

1950s
Simulated diamond-set chain and simulated pearl drops

Condition Grade C+
6cm drop

Footnotes

Jacqueline Kennedy incorporated pearls into her everyday style and claimed that, 'pearls are always appropriate'. However, much of her jewellery, including her iconic three-strand pearls necklace, consisted of simulated pearls rather than natural ones, as she preferred their lustre.

Her choice to wear imitation pearls challenged the notion that jewellery had to be genuine to be meaningful or elegant. This made her 'look' more accessible to a broader audience, influencing a generation, and cementing her fashion icon status.

Provenance

Bonhams, Goodwood, Pioneers of Popular Culture, 15th August 2010, lot 210.

Sotheby's New York, Jewelry From The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 24th and 25th April 1996, lot 461.

This lot is sold with original Sotheby's presentation box, pouch, lot tags and catalogue; Bonhams lot tags; and a copy of Vanity Fair showing a photograph of Mrs Kennedy and designer Oleg Cassini at the Belmont Ball, Long Island 1954, where the earrings are clearly in view.

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