Three or four slightly different brooches were in fact made of this lively orchid. The first one was designed and made for Mrs. Daisy Fellowes, a celebrated 20th-century society figure and acclaimed beauty who was first married to Prince Jean Amédée Marie Anatole de Broglie and, shortly after his death in 1918, married the Hon. Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes. She was known as one of the most daring fashion celebrities of the 20th century, arguably the most important patron of the surrealist couturier Elsa Schiaparelli.
Due to the very limited number of executed models, it is likely that this brooch was formerly the property of this illustrious personage.

Christie's Geneva, 13 November 1975, lot 449