Live Auction 1359Jewels: The Geneva Sale
AN EXQUISITE ART DECO NATURAL PEARL, DIAMOND AND EMERALD BANGLE, PROBABLY BY LACLOCHE FRÈRES
Lot 261

AN EXQUISITE ART DECO NATURAL PEARL, DIAMOND AND EMERALD BANGLE, PROBABLY BY LACLOCHE FRÈRES

Closed20 November 2008

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AN EXQUISITE ART DECO NATURAL PEARL, DIAMOND AND EMERALD BANGLE, PROBABLY BY LACLOCHE FRÈRES
Designed as two circular-cut diamond facing chimera heads, each accented by a triangular-shaped diamond and emerald eyes, holding a natural pearl weighing 41.59 grains, to the circular and baguette-cut diamond pierced hoop, circa 1925, 18.2 cm inner cicumference
Probably by Lacloche Frères
Accompanied by report no. 52082 dated 19 August 2008 from the SSEF Swiss Gemmological Institute stating that the pearl is a natural saltwater pearl

Specialist note

According to the present owner, this bracelet was offered to her as a wedding gift by a member of the Lacloche Family. Although the bangle is not signed it does however bear very similar stylistic characteristics to another bangle by Lacloche illustrated in David Bennett & Daniela Mascetti, Understanding Jewellery, Suffolk (1989), plate 602. Indeed this piece exhibits a technical ability only worthy of an important Maison such as the Maison Lacloche.