AN ART NOUVEAU DIAMOND, SAPPHIRE AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY BOUCHERON
Lot 288 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

AN ART NOUVEAU DIAMOND, SAPPHIRE AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY BOUCHERON

Closed16 October 2007

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USD 241,000

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AN ART NOUVEAU DIAMOND, SAPPHIRE AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY BOUCHERON
Designed as a bumblebee with a rose-cut diamond and fancy-cut sapphire body, an old European and rose-cut diamond head and antennae, and cabochon cat's eye chrysoberyl eyes, extending pale greenish blue and lavendar plique-à-jour enamel wings, mounted in 18k yellow and white gold, circa 1895, 3¾ x 1½ ins., with French assay marks, in a burgundy leather fitted case
With maker's mark for Boucheron

Specialist note

Cf. Gilles Néret, Boucheron: Four Generations of a World-Renowned Jeweler, Rizzoli, New York, page 24