Live Auction 2390Rare Jewels and Objets d'Art: A Superb Collection
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Lot 1093 BELLE DE NUIT

**AN ART NOUVEAU DIAMOND, IVORY AND PLIQUE-A-JOUR ENAMEL "BELLE DE NUIT" BROOCH

Closed21 October 2009

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**AN ART NOUVEAU DIAMOND, IVORY AND PLIQUE-A-JOUR ENAMEL "BELLE DE NUIT" BROOCH
Designed as a carved ivory figure of Night with a rose-cut diamond sash, extending blue plique-à-jour enamel wings scattered with diamond collets, enhanced by a diamond trim and diamond stars, set against an old European and rose-cut diamond crescent moon and scattered star backdrop, mounted in platinum and silver-topped gold, circa 1900, (with pendant hoops for suspension)
Signed B for Edmond Becker

Specialist note

The identity of the maker of this Symbolist masterpiece is unknown, though the ivory figure of a woman is thought to have been carved by sculptor Edmond-Henri Becker. His heroine rises into the night as the apotheosis of beauty lifted by bat wings to the moon and stars.