THE DAME EAR PENDANTS
~A PAIR OF CORAL AND MULTI-GEM EAR PENDANTS, BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
Lot 41 The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor

THE DAME EAR PENDANTS ~A PAIR OF CORAL AND MULTI-GEM EAR PENDANTS, BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS

Closed13 December 2011

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THE DAME EAR PENDANTS
~A PAIR OF CORAL AND MULTI-GEM EAR PENDANTS, BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
Each designed as a carved white coral Rose de Noël with a circular-cut diamond cluster pistil, suspending a detachable graduated line of three circular-cut diamond and yellow sapphire butterflies, spaced by cultured pearls and collet-set diamonds, mounted in 18k gold, circa 1999, with French assay marks and maker's marks
Signed V.C.A. for Van Cleef & Arpels, N.Y., nos. 1431BSO, 3V918-19, 16V661-2 and 16V661-3R (2)

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Designed by Elizabeth Taylor and worn upon the occasion of her investiture as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 2000