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Van Cleef & Arpels

Diamond 'Flot de Rubans' brooch

Auction Closed

September 30, 03:31 PM GMT

Estimate

28,000 - 38,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Designed as a stylised bow set with baguette and brilliant-cut diamonds.

  • Measuring approximately 55 x 55mm
  • Signed Van Cleef & Arpels and numbered
  • Maker's mark and French assay marks for platinum and 18 carat gold
  • Gross weight 48.98 grams


Evelyne Possémé, Van Cleef & Arpels - The Art of High Jewelry, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2012, pg. 110, for a highly similar brooch part of the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection dated to 1937.


Sarah D. Coffin (ed.), Set in Style- The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels, New York, 2011, pg. 222 for a highly similar brooch part of the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection dated to 1937, formerly on the collection of Countess de Beaurepaire.


Sylvie Raulet, Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris, 1986, pg. 192, for a highly similar brooch dated to 1937.