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AN IMPRESSIVE JADEITE AND DIAMOND BUTTERFLY BROOCH
Designed as four highly translucent brilliant green plaques, each carved and pierced with a typical motif of bats and cash, centering upon a large oval-cut diamond weighing 11.66 carats and a marquise diamond of 4.06 carats arranged with smaller vary-cut diamonds as body of the butterfly, highlit at four corners with more diamonds all supported on a gold frame, circa 1971
signed by David Webb
cf this brooch was advertised by Webb in Vogue Magazine in 1971 (see page 25 of this catalogue) at the launching of his new "jadeite look", it was the most important of the pieces he made at that time
Designed as four highly translucent brilliant green plaques, each carved and pierced with a typical motif of bats and cash, centering upon a large oval-cut diamond weighing 11.66 carats and a marquise diamond of 4.06 carats arranged with smaller vary-cut diamonds as body of the butterfly, highlit at four corners with more diamonds all supported on a gold frame, circa 1971
signed by David Webb
cf this brooch was advertised by Webb in Vogue Magazine in 1971 (see page 25 of this catalogue) at the launching of his new "jadeite look", it was the most important of the pieces he made at that time