A diamond bangle, by Gianmaria Buccellati. Photo Philips de Pury & Co

The pierced openwork ‘honeycomb’ centre regularly set with lozenge-shaped pavé-set diamond motif and diamond accents flanked by circular-cut diamond and pavé-set diamond clusters, to rigato engraving to the edges, inner diameter 5.4 cm, total diamond weight 9.44 carats, signed ‘Buccellati’, numbered X3299. ESTIMATE £45,000-65,000 - Unsold.

PROVENANCE Accompanied by Replacement Valuation, dated February 2009, signed by Gianmaria Buccellati.

EXHIBITED EXHIBITED Bucellati: Timeless Art, Moscow Kremlin Museums, September 2008 – January 2009.

LITERATURE LITERATURE Sylvia Luzzatto, ed., Buccellati, Timeless Art, Milan, 2009, p. 153

Philips de Pury & Co. Jewels. 1 june 2011. London www.phillipsdepury.com