Cultured pearl and diamond brooch, Van Cleef & Arpels, circa 1950

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Description

Van Cleef & Arpels
signed Van Cleef & Arpels New York and numbered, one diamond deficient.

Designed as three flowers set throughout with brilliant- and single-cut and baguette diamonds, supporting a detachable fringe of three rows of cultured pearls terminating in diamond tassels, mounted in platinum,

Literature

For a similar example see Sylvie Raulet, Van Cleef & Arpels, Editions du Regard, 1986, page 196. This shows a photograph of a gouache of a similar clip used as a necklace centre.