A pair of diamond ear clips by Hans Georg Mautner, 1963, each designed as two overlapping leaves formed from ropetwist wires and centred with three brilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in 18ct gold, maker’s mark, London hallmark, total diamond weight approximately 0.30 carat, length 20mm.
£800-£1,000

Hans Georg Mautner (1901 - circa 1972)
Born in Austria, Mautner undertook his apprenticeship in Prague , then working for the wholesale jeweller Bethhold Muller in Hanau.
In 1925 he established his own workshop and retail premises in Vienna, exhibiting regularly at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna’s oldest surviving Arts Society. His work from this early period is sculptural and Art Deco in design. He went on to win a silver medal at the Milan Triennale in 1933, and a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1937.
Mautner moved to London in 1938, where he set up a workshop in Hatton Garden. Little is known about him during the 1940s, but through the 1950s and 1960s he produced jewellery for S. J. Rood of Burlington Arcade, Boucheron of Old Bond Street and Garrard & Co. Ltd. of Regent Street.