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A SUPERB PERIDOT, TURQUOISE AND YELLOW GOLD MELON COMPACT, JEAN SCHLUMBERGER, TIFFANY & CO.
Designed as a sculpted matte-finished yellow gold melon, enhanced by polished yellow gold and cabochon turquoise vines and rectangular-cut peridots, one end set with a cabochon emerald, opening to reveal a mirror and powder well, mounted in 18K yellow gold, circa 1956
Signed Schlumberger, Tiffany, No. 5
Designed as a sculpted matte-finished yellow gold melon, enhanced by polished yellow gold and cabochon turquoise vines and rectangular-cut peridots, one end set with a cabochon emerald, opening to reveal a mirror and powder well, mounted in 18K yellow gold, circa 1956
Signed Schlumberger, Tiffany, No. 5
Provenance
"Jewels from the Collection of Ailsa Mellon Bruce", Christie's New York, December 7, 1988, Lot 524
Literature
For an illustration of a similar compact see:
Jean d'Ormesson, "Objets de Jean Schlumberger", Franco Maria Ricci, 1976, p. 31
Jean d'Ormesson, "Objets de Jean Schlumberger", Franco Maria Ricci, 1976, p. 31