Nardi. A Ruby and Cultured Pearl Blackamoor Brooch. Photo Philips de Pury & Company

Designed as a blackamoor with a carved ebony head, wearing a textured and braided gold turban enhanced by a ruby-set star motif and circular-cut rubies, with seed-pearl ear pendants, to the shield-shaped tunic decorated with circular-cut ruby, and a circular-cut ruby and cultured pearl trim, mounted in 18K yellow gold, length 2 1/3 inches.  Signed 'S NARDI'. ESTIMATE $5,000-7,000 

Philips de Pury & Company. 19 April 2012 4pm. 450 Park Avenue, New York. Enquiries Nazgol Jahan njahan@phillipsdepury.com - + 1 212 940 1283