A MOONSTONE, SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND "LA MEDUSE" BROOCH, BY JEAN SCHLUMBERGER, TIFFANY & CO.

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A MOONSTONE, SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND "LA MEDUSE" BROOCH, BY JEAN SCHLUMBERGER, TIFFANY & CO.
Designed as a jellyfish, the body set with a domed cluster of cabochon moonstones, accented by circular-cut diamonds, extending curling textured gold and baguette-cut sapphire tentacles and flexible polished gold tentacles, mounted in 18k gold and platinum, circa 1965, with French assay marks and maker's mark
Signed Tiffany & Co., Schlumberger for Jean Schlumberger, France

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The art collector and philanthropist Mrs. Paul "Bunny" Mellon, Schlumberger's greatest patron, purchased the original clip to commemorate an attack by a Portuguese man-o'-war

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Cf. Chantal Bizot, The Jewels of Jean Schlumberger, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 2001, page 26 and back cover

Cf. John Loring, Tiffany Colored Gems, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2007, pages 182-183 and 185

Cf. John Loring, Tiffany's 20th Century: A Portrait of American Style, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1997, page 157

Cf. Franco Maria Ricci, Ed., Bijoux de Jean Schlumberger, 1976, page 127

Cf. Suzanne Tennenbaum and Janet Zapata, The Jeweled Menagerie: The World of Animals in Gems, Thames & Hudson, 2001, pages 166-167