Holocaust survivor and Hungarian-born luxury goods designer Judith Leiber produced this "Crystal Dreams" compact in association with Estee Lauder. (See both names in photo 3)
See notes on Judith Leiber (from the internet) below.
The design incorporates a rainbow of coloured Swarovski crystals throughout as shown. The underside is a rich goldtone metal.finish
The compact is unused but the original box is absent.
Judith Leiber (Born Judit Peto in Hungary in 1926), in 1946 married Gerson Leiber (Gus), who was a sergeant in the United States Army serving in Eastern Europe. They met when she was making purses for the secretaries of the American Legation in Budapest, and they moved to New York City in 1947. He was an abstract expressionist painter, member of the National Academy of Design, with some of his works displayed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Museum, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and other institutions.[4]
After working as a handbag designer for other companies, Leiber founded her own business in 1963. She is known for her crystal minaudières, evening purses made of a metal shell often encrusted with Swarovski crystals, plated with silver or gold and with various forms, such as baby pigs, slices of watermelon, cupcakes, peacocks, penguins, and snakes. Sold at exclusive boutiques around the world, her purses may cost up to several thousand dollars and have become a status symbol for many women, including several Presidential First Ladies to whom she has given them as a present, from Mamie Eisenhower to Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton. Animals are a recurring theme in her designs, and often ornament the most expensive purses of the collection, with prices on some animal-shaped minaudières exceeding US$7,000. Some wealthy women collect them; Bernice Norman, an arts patron in New Orleans, owns close to 300 of the Leiber bags.[4]
  In 1994, Leiber received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers. She retired in 1998.
The Judith Leiber compact may be collected from My Mother's at Old Petrie Town sunday morning markets or delivered in the Brisbane area by arrangement.
 Buyers from outside Australia are welcome but please contact us prior to purchase in order to discuss shipping costs.