拍品 79
79
A DELICATE GARLAND STYLE DIAMOND AND YELLOW DIAMOND NECKLACE

细节
A DELICATE GARLAND STYLE DIAMOND AND YELLOW DIAMOND NECKLACE
Designed as a series of graduated old mine-cut yellow diamond and diamond collet festoons with similar-set ribbon bow and knife-edged foliate detail to the detachable collet-set diamond scroll and ribbon bow backchain, circa 1895, 40.0 cm.

拍品专文

This necklace is unusual in that it consists of yellow diamonds with white diamond detail. Generally one would see the opposite pattern. Its knife-edged setting could lead one to date the jewel to the 1890s, whereas the platinum suggests a date closer to the turn-of-the-century.