Cuff bangle, Van Cleef & Arpels - Sotheby's.

Designed as a wide textured cuff bangle, signed Van Cleef & Arpels and numbered, case stamped Van Cleef & Arpels. Estimate: 4,000 - 6,000 GBP

EXHIBITED: A pair of almost identical Etruscan-style cuffs appeared in the exhibition Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels, Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, February 18 – July 4, 2011, no. 325.
Another single cuff is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 265, fig. 38.

LITERATURE: Cf: Jewelry from the Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sotheby's New York, April 24, 1996, lot 451. Another pair of similar cuffs, from the Estate of Lucia Moreira Salles, was sold by Sotheby's in New York, Magnificent Jewels, December 9, 2009, lot 254.

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