A SAPPHIRE 'DOLPHIN' BROOCH, BY JEAN SCHLUMBERGER FOR TIFFANY & CO.

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A SAPPHIRE 'DOLPHIN' BROOCH, BY JEAN SCHLUMBERGER FOR TIFFANY & CO.
The pavé-set sapphire body with demantoid garnet detail to the gold head, fins and tail, holding in its mouth an orange enamel 'coral' branch, circa 1965, 6.0 cm long
Signed Tiffany Schlumberger

Lot Essay

Cf. J. Loring, Tiffany Jewels, Harry N.Abrams, 1999, p. 199. Photograph of Elizabeth Taylor wearing Jean Schlumberger's 'Dolphin' brooch given to her by Richard Burton in 1964 after completing work on John Huston's film of Tennesee Williams's The Night of the Iguana

D. Vreeland, Bijoux de Jean Schlumberger, Franco Maria Ricci, 1976, p. 101

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