Lot Essay
Cf. "Objets de Jean Schlumberger", Jean d'Ormesson, Franco Maria Ricci, Ed., Milan, 1976, page 23
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A SAPPHIRE, EMERALD AND GOLD "TURBAN" COMPACT, BY JEAN SCHLUMBERGER, TIFFANY & CO.
Details
A SAPPHIRE, EMERALD AND GOLD "TURBAN" COMPACT, BY JEAN SCHLUMBERGER, TIFFANY & CO.
Centering upon a bombé cluster of oval and circular-cut sapphires, with circular-cut emerald accents, to the polished gold ropework case of circular outline, enhanced by fluted gold stylized ribbon, opening to reveal a fitted mirror, powder well, and feather powder puff, mounted in 18k gold, circa 1951, 2¾ x 1 ins., in a Tiffany-Schlumberger black suede fitted case
Signed Tiffany, Schlumberger-7, no. 282
Centering upon a bombé cluster of oval and circular-cut sapphires, with circular-cut emerald accents, to the polished gold ropework case of circular outline, enhanced by fluted gold stylized ribbon, opening to reveal a fitted mirror, powder well, and feather powder puff, mounted in 18k gold, circa 1951, 2¾ x 1 ins., in a Tiffany-Schlumberger black suede fitted case
Signed Tiffany, Schlumberger-7, no. 282