VAN CLEEF & ARPELS: A LAPIS LAZULI, CULTURED PEARL AND GOLD ...

Hammer

€8,000

VAN CLEEF & ARPELS: A LAPIS LAZULI, CULTURED PEARL AND GOLD 'TWIST' BRACELET, CIRCA 1965 Of twist rope design, with alternating rows of lapis lazuli, cultured pearl and gold beads, mounted in 18K gold, signed VCA, numbered, with maker's mark 'S Cie' for Roger Stoffel et Compagnie' and maker's mark 'VCA', French assay marks, with maker's case, length 19.8cm Roger Stoffel et Companie, Parisian workshop that worked in the 1960s for Van Cleef & Arpels, Jean Schlumberger, amongst others. For a similar example of the 'Twist' collection, with coral beads, see page 162 from 'Le Dictionnaire Merveilleux, Van Cleef & Arpels', by Fabienne Reybaud, éditions Flammarion. Another similar example with cultured pearls and gold beads, was shown at the 'The Art of Movement, Van Cleef & Arpels' exhibition, at the Design Museum in London in Sept-Oct. 2022. See page 130 from 'Le Dictionnaire Merveilleux, Van Cleef & Arpels', by Fabienne Reybaud, éditions Flammarion.