Ballerina clips by Van Cleef Arpels from The Spirit of Beauty exhibition

Femininity, nature and grace have always provided constant inspiration for the exquisite creations of Van Cleef Arpels, and some of the most enduring and charming examples of this inspiration are the Fairy and Ballerina clips, which were invented at the beginning of the 1940s in New York. A collaboration between Maurice Duvalet, a Frenchborn designer based in New York, Van Cleef Arpels and John Rubel, their manufacturer, resulted in the production of these extremely rare miniature gemset figures, prob