Fine Jewellery - Day Two

Day One, Wednesday 29th October: lots 1-372, starting at 10.00am

Day Two, Thursday 20th October: lots 372-757, starting at 10.00am

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Our Fine Jewellery auction taking place on the 29^th & 30^th October features over 750 lots, including exceptional contemporary and historic pieces.

Continuing into Day Two of the sale, we are delighted to be offering a private collection (lots 735-749), which includes an impressive late 19^th century diamond brooch, designed as a delicate sprig of wild roses (lot 748), and a late 19^th century diamond rivière necklace, set with old cushion-shaped diamonds weighing a total of approximately 45.00-50.00 carats. We will also be offering an interesting private collection of Javanese jewellery (lots 491-501), which has passed by family descent from Mrs Agnes van Gessler Verschuir, the wife of Mr Peter van Gessler Verschuir, Governor of Yogyakarta in Java between 1929-1932.

Our Fine Jewellery sales regularly include extraordinary coloured stones and natural pearls, and this auction continues very much in this vein. We are once again pleased to present jewellery by Van Cleef & Arpels, including two exquisite lots featuring natural pearls of exceptional quality: a natural pearl and diamond bracelet, circa 1950 (lot 717), and a fine natural pearl and diamond ring (lot 755). These lots are presented for sale following the successful result achieved for a pair of Van Cleef and Arpels natural pearl and diamond earrings, which sold for £75,600 (inc. fees) in our April auction earlier this year. Turning to coloured stones, it is a privilege for us to be including two sapphires of Kashmir origin in this sale: a sugarloaf sapphire weighing 2.42 carats, set in a stickpin by Tiffany & Co. (lot 727), and a cushion-shaped sapphire, weighing 3.26 carats, set in a platinum ring (lot 728).

Art Deco jewellery is a particularly well-loved category in the current market, and we are thrilled to be offering a number of pieces from this period, including a French Art Deco diamond tiara / necklace (lot 756), a Louis Maruzzi Art Deco diamond and onyx bracelet, circa 1925 (lot 733), and a Cartier Art Deco jadeite, sapphire, diamond and enamel vanity case, Paris, circa 1925 (lot 729). Alongside Art Deco, there are a variety of other periods also well represented in this auction, with other highlights including an impressive 1960's gem-set giardinetto brooch (lot 675), a Victorian diamond brooch, late 19^th century (lot 597), and a Belle Époque diamond and pearl pendant necklace (lot 715).

The second day of the sale concludes with an impressive diamond fringe necklace (lot 757), weighing a total of approximately 70.00 carats.