Sale 2180
Hong Kong
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2 November 2004
Price realised
HKD 97,990
Estimate
AN ART NOUVEAU CONCH PEARL AND DIAMOND BROOCH Designed as an openwork old-cut diamond stylised wings with a central button-shaped conch pearl, suspending an ovoid conch pearl terminal, mounted in gold (conch pearls are later-added), circa 1900, 4.8 cm wide, with French assay marks for gold, in a green velvet fitted box with interior lining stamped "Le Palais-Royal de Fernandez Hno y Ca., Obispo 58y60, Habana"
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