Lot 270. A pair of tourmaline, agate and diamond camellia brooches, by JAR. Estimate CHF130,000 – CHF160,000 ($142,569 - $175,469). Price realised CHF 485,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2015

Each designed as a sculptural flower, centering upon a circular-cut diamond, within brilliant-cut diamond collet pistils, to the carved pink tourmaline and white agate petals, mounted in platinum and gold, 1985, 6.5 cm, with French assay mark for gold, in pink leather JAR fitted case - Unsigned (2)

Literature: JAR I, Exhibition at Somerset House, London, November 2002-January 2003, no. 270 

Exhibited: Jewels by JAR, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 2013- March 2014, no.22 

Christie's. MAGNIFICENT JEWELS, 13 May 2015, Geneva