Barbara Hutton

Fancy Intense Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold Ring, Underwood's. Photo courtesy Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- A Fancy Intense Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold Ring, custom-made by Underwood's, is expected to bring in excess of $100,000 when it comes to auction on Dec. 5 as the lead lot in Heritage Auctions' Fine Jewelry Signature(r) Auction, being held at the company's Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. The ring, featuring a cut-cornered rectangular modified brilliant-cut fancy intense yellow diamond... [Lire la suite]

Canaletto, The Piazza San Marco, looking East, about 1723 (detail). © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Photo: José Loren WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art, Washington, presents 20 of Canaletto's finest paintings of Venice with 33 by his most important contemporaries, including Gaspar Vanvitelli, Luca Carlevarijs, Michele Marieschi, Bernardo Bellotto, and Francesco Guardi, in Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals, on view from February 20 through May 30, 2011, in the East Building. These dazzling cityscapes represent the... [Lire la suite]

A superb rare pair of famille rose 'peach' dishes. Yongzheng six-character marks within double-squares and of the period. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2010 Each dish thinly potted with low rounded sides rising from a shallow foot ring to a flaring rim with a gently rounded edge, finely enamelled in shades of pink, green, brown, yellow, white, black and iron-red, the exterior with three peaches on flowering branches besides two bats, the design continuing over the rim to the interior with a further five peaches and three bats... [Lire la suite]

Clip danseuse espagnole, 1941 © DR Van Cleef and Arpels Réalisée en 1941, cette danseuse en platine serti de diamants, d'émeraudes, de rubis et de saphirs, fait partie des premières créations de la maison sur le thème de la danse. Pour évoquer la souplesse du tissu, son costume joue sur les tailles et les couleurs des pierres précieuses. Clip Fée à la baguette magique, 1944 © DR Van Cleef and Arpels Sur une monture en platine, le visage est composé d'un diamant taille rose, tout comme le corps et les ailes,... [Lire la suite]