A DIAMOND, SAPPHIRE AND EMERALD 'DOLPHIN' BROOCH, BY JEAN SCHLUMBERGER, TIFFANY & CO.

Details

A DIAMOND, SAPPHIRE AND EMERALD 'DOLPHIN' BROOCH, BY JEAN SCHLUMBERGER, TIFFANY & CO.
Designed as a circular-cut diamond body with polished gold scales, with a pavé-set diamond and gold tail and fins, to the polished gold head, accented by cabochon sapphire eyes and a calibré-cut emerald mouth, extending polished gold whiskers, mounted in 18k gold and platinum, in a Tiffany & Co. black suede case
Signed Tiffany & Co., Schlumberger Studios for Jean Schlumberger, no. 17878336

Further Details

Tiffany & Co. has produced only six of these brooches, this one in particular being the fifth one created.

Lot Essay

Cf. Chantal Bizot, The Jewels of Jean Schlumberger, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2001, page 25

Cf. John Loring, Tiffany's 150 Years, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1987, page 169

Cf. John Loring, Tiffany Jewels, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1999, page 199

Cf. Ruth A. Peltason, Ed., Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2002, page 155

Cf. Penny Proddow and Marion Fasel, Bejeweled: Great Designers, Celebrity Style, Abrams, New York, 2001, page 104

Cf. Franco Maria Ricci, Ed., Bijoux de Jean Schlumberger, 1976, pages 100-101

Cf. Suzanne Tennenbaum and Janet Zapata, The Jeweled Menagerie: The World of Animals in Gems, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2001, page 163

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