Christie’s roundel
Lot 1124

A SAPPHIRE, DIAMOND AND RUBY BROOCH, BY RAYMOND YARD

Closed21 October 2009

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USD 43,750

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A SAPPHIRE, DIAMOND AND RUBY BROOCH, BY RAYMOND YARD
Designed as a squatting lion, with a cabochon sapphire head, and collet-set diamond eyes and mouth, with sculpted platinum whiskers, extending a sculpted gold mane, to the circular and single-cut diamond and calibré-cut sapphire body, with calibré-cut ruby feet, mounted in platinum and gold, circa 1957
Signed Yard for Raymond Yard

Specialist note

Cf. Natasha Kuzmanovic, Yard: The Life and Magnificent Jewelry of Raymond C. Yard, Vendome Press, New York, 2007, page 177