ADAM'S FINE JEWELLERY & WATCHES Tuesday 17th September 2019

47 78 A GOLD AND GEM-SET NOVELTY BROOCH, CIRCA 1960 Designed as a Lion, with textured fur, wirework mane and tail, circu- lar-cut sapphire and diamond set eye and black enamel snout, mounted in 18K gold, French assay mark, maker’s mark ‘Sté R’, with velvet pouch from Fred Paris, length 3.8cm € 600 - 800 77 A GOLD AND EMERALD NOVELTY BROOCH, BY MEISTER The textured gold frog with an emerald cabochon body and round brilliant-cut diamond for eyes, mounted in 18K gold, emerald approximately 30.00cts, signed ‘EM’ for Emil Meister, length 4.5cm, width 4cm € 3,000 - 4,000 79 A PAIR OF DIAMOND EARCLIPS, BY SCHLUMBERGER FOR TIFFANY & CO. Each designed as gold rope rays highlighted with round brilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in 18K gold, diamonds approximately 0.80ct, signed ‘Tiffany Schlumberger’, length 3.3cm € 2,000 - 3,000 JeanSchlumberger (1907-1987) started his career in Paris in the 1930s as a designer of costume jewellery for the renowned couturier Elsa Schiaparelli and by the end of the decade he was creating fine jewellery for a discerning clientele. In 1939 he joined forces with Nicholas Bongard and together they opened a jewellery shop at 745 FifthAvenue. Schlumberger looked to nature for inspiration and the pieces that made him famous and so well loved,were a riot of coloured gems, enamel and yellow gold. Tiffany & Co., under the direction of Walter Hoving, recruited Schlumberger in 1955 with hopes to breathe new life into the company and create a new look.Schlumbergerwas one of only four jewellers thatTiffany has allowed to sign theirwork and it was his playful imagination thatmounted a jewelled bird on top of the famousTiffanyYellowDiamond. Schlumberger brings to his art classic design principles of theRenaissance,’reportedThe Blue Book of 1986.DianaVreeland,the respected editor ofVogue, wrote that Schlumberger appreciated‘the miracle of jewels, which for him are the ways and means to the realisation of his dreams’. Created in his studio on the mezzanine level ofTiffany’s FifthAvenue flagship store, his designs became de rigueur for fashionable women of the time including DianaVreeland, Babe Paley ElizabethTaylor andAudreyHepburn.Schlumberger retired in the late 1970s and died in 1987,butmore than a hundred of his designs continue to be made byTiffany artisans. Schlumberger pieces have not only held their value at auction but continue to increase in general, such as the diamond and yellow gold ear clips on offer at Adam’s.These classic ear clips, composed of twisted lines of yellow gold decorated with bright white diamonds are a delight to the eye and a stylish investment piece.