A RARE GEM-SET, DIAMOND AND COLOURED DIAMOND LION CLIP BROOCH, BY RENE BOIVIN
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A RARE GEM-SET, DIAMOND AND COLOURED DIAMOND LION CLIP BROOCH, BY RENE BOIVIN
Designed as a sleeping lion with pavé-set diamond paws and pavé-set coloured diamond and diamond articulated body to the bezel-set circular and oval-cut sapphire and emerald mane, mounted in 18k gold, circa 1960, with French assay mark for gold
Signed René Boivin, Paris
Lot Essay
Cf. Françoise Cailles, "René Boivin Joaillier", Les Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1994, p. 309