Maison Bibelot, auction in Florence
The international high jewellery auction at Maison Bibelot on May 29th in Florence, Italy.
In 1940 a famous Milanese family moved to New York to escape the racial laws. A few years later, it writed to Bulgari to get certified the jewels purchased in the past. In the letter written by Giorgio Bulgari we find the top lot of this auction: an important Kashmir sapphire mounted on a platinum ring of Deco style, embellished with trapezoidal diamonds, 1934. The ring will be presented in the auction with an estimate of € 150,000/180,000, 00. The Florentine auction house hopes for a new success as last December, when a 10-carat Kashmir Sapphire reached the record of € 857,000.00.
In the auction also other jewels of the same provenance, bought from Bulgari between 1930 and 1940: an Deco bracelet in yellow gold embellished with yoke sapphires (€ 3.500/4.000, 00), a refined daisy ring with Burmese ruby and Diamonds (€ 11.000/15.000, 00) and a brooch with a bar in platinum and diamonds (€ 1.500/2.000, 00).
An important sapphire is also the protagonist of the New York ring Flora Staal Hartog: the deep blue of the Burma Oval of 13 carats is enhanced by sixteen brilliant cut diamonds. The jewel was made by the famous jewellery F. Staal on Fifth Avenue.
Other famous signatures of the international high jewellery are part of the extensive catalogue of about 300 lots: signed by Van Cleef & Arpels a brooch clip "Tutti Frutti" from the Deco era, embellished with a small clock studded with stones of color and diamonds and a pair of earrings in rubies and diamonds, of Cartier instead a refined brooch of the 1940s, flower-shaped, with diamonds and rubies (€4,800/5,200.00).
Arianna Pinton
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