Lot 283. Diamond brooch, Van Cleef & Arpels. Estimate 7,500 — 8,500 GBP. Lot sold 25,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.

Designed as a cockatoo, set with brilliant-cut diamonds of yellow and near colourless tint and a circular-cut emerald for the eye, signed VCA, numbered.

Please note that the diamonds of yellow tint have not been tested for natural colour origin. 

Sotheby's. Fine Jewels, London | 06 Jun 2016