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A DIAMOND AND RUBY BALLERINA CLIP BROOCH
The ballerina with brilliant-cut diamond dress, shoes and headdress, with calibre and circular-cut ruby detail, the face set with an old mine cut diamond, circa 1965
Height 6.8 cm
Signed by Van Cleef and Arpels, numbered NY52625
The ballerina with brilliant-cut diamond dress, shoes and headdress, with calibre and circular-cut ruby detail, the face set with an old mine cut diamond, circa 1965
Height 6.8 cm
Signed by Van Cleef and Arpels, numbered NY52625
Further details
During the 1930s and '40s Van Cleef & Arpels was at the forefront of jewellery innovation, in both design and manufacture. One of their most distinctive and charming themes was the ballerina or crinolined dancer first made in the early 1940s, designed by Maurice Duvalet and made by John Rubel, Vancleef 7 Arpels' manufacturing jeweller in New York. The ballerinas, made mostly in rose diamonds to emphasise their old world charm, their gowns trimemd with rubies and emeralds, were based on paintings or portrayals of classical dancers from Maria Camargo to Anna Pavlova. Their design emphasised the dancer's graceful movements and energy and these popular brooches came to epitomise the new figural mood in jewellery design of the 1940s