Sale 1222
Geneva
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21 November 1996
Price realised
CHF 108,000
Estimate
A SUITE OF ATTRACTIVE CABOCHON RUBY AND DIAMOND JEWELLERY, BY CLERC Comprising a necklace, the front section designed as three baguette-cut, pavé and collet-set diamond festoons centering on a cabochon ruby and diamond cluster to the similar-set diamond twin-row neckchain with ruby and diamond cluster spacers; a bracelet; two clips and a pair of earclips en suite, mounted in platinum, circa 1935, necklace 43.0 cm., bracelet 19.5 cm. (with fitting to wear clips together as a brooch), in a Clerc blue leather fitted case, with French assay marks By Clerc, one clip numbered 93383 (5)
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Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Specialist Joy McCall answers key questions for collectors of the glassmaker’s exquisite pieces. Illustrated with lots offered in the Lalique sale on 15 May
Offered in May, a 1916 canvas that was included in every major survey of Malevich’s Suprematist works during his lifetime, and which revolutionised modern art