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AN ART NOUVEAU COLOURED SAPPHIRE, CITRINE AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY RENÉ LALIQUE
Centering a cushion-shaped yellow sapphire within a veronica plant surround in yellow glass and brown enamel, to the circular and pear-shaped citrine drop, circa 1905, 9.0 cm, with French assay mark for gold
Signed Lalique
Accompanied by report no. 92643 dated 7 June 2017 from the SSEF Swiss Gemmological Institute stating that the origin of the yellow sapphire is Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with no indications of heating.
Centering a cushion-shaped yellow sapphire within a veronica plant surround in yellow glass and brown enamel, to the circular and pear-shaped citrine drop, circa 1905, 9.0 cm, with French assay mark for gold
Signed Lalique
Accompanied by report no. 92643 dated 7 June 2017 from the SSEF Swiss Gemmological Institute stating that the origin of the yellow sapphire is Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with no indications of heating.
Provenance
Michel Perinet
Literature
Société Lalique, Lalique par Lalique, Lausanne, Edipop, 1977, p. 43 for a photograph of this brooch
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