Lot Essay
The necklace was especially commissionned by the Princess from the Maison Boucheron in the 1950s. It remained in the familiy ever since.
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FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF AN OTTOMAN PRINCESS (continued)
A DIAMOND NECKLACE, BY BOUCHERON
Details
A DIAMOND NECKLACE, BY BOUCHERON
Designed as a triple swag, the lower and upper set with a series of graduated brilliant-cut diamonds with vertically-set baguette-cut diamond spacers and the middle upper swag with graduated baguette-cut diamonds, to the brilliant and baguette-cut diamond ribbon spacers, suspended from an alternating brilliant and baguette-cut diamond backchain, mounted in platinum, circa 1955, approximately 38.5 cm., with French assay marks for platinum and gold, (ribbons detach to be worn as ear clips and backchain and lower swag combine to form a necklace 41.0 cm.), in a Boucheron beige suede pouch
Signed Boucheron Paris, no. 529.156
Designed as a triple swag, the lower and upper set with a series of graduated brilliant-cut diamonds with vertically-set baguette-cut diamond spacers and the middle upper swag with graduated baguette-cut diamonds, to the brilliant and baguette-cut diamond ribbon spacers, suspended from an alternating brilliant and baguette-cut diamond backchain, mounted in platinum, circa 1955, approximately 38.5 cm., with French assay marks for platinum and gold, (ribbons detach to be worn as ear clips and backchain and lower swag combine to form a necklace 41.0 cm.), in a Boucheron beige suede pouch
Signed Boucheron Paris, no. 529.156
Literature
Gilles Néret, Boucheron, Histoire d'une dynastie de joailliers, Office du Livre SA, Fribourg, 1988, pages 166-167