Sale 8496
New York, Park Avenue
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23 - 24 October 1996
Price realised
USD 101,500
Estimate
AN ATTRACTIVE YELLOW AND NEAR COLORLESS DIAMOND BROOCH, BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Designed as a pavé-set yellow diamond cartouche, bordered by old mine and old European-cut near colorless diamonds, with an old mine and marquise-cut diamond cluster center, suspending a briolette diamond fringe, mounted in 18K gold (with a pendant hook), with French hallmarks Signed by Van Cleef & Arpels, No. 26002
Provenance
Jewels from the Personal Collection of Princess Salimah Aga Khan, Christie's Geneva, November 13, 1995, lot 246
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