CHANEL - Yellow gold "Camellia" ring centered with a white ceramic camellia - Signed - TDD : 53 - Gross weight : 23,1 g - The camellia became the emblematic flower of the Chanel House in the 1920's. Gabrielle Chanel, a great art lover, had chosen this flower as a symbol for her fashion house after having attended the performance of "La Dame aux Camélias" interpreted by Sarah Bernhardt. Moreover, this flower in the buttonhole reminded her of the dandies she loved to frequent during the Roaring Twenties, and as a first mark of women's emancipation, she pinned this flower to the buttonhole of the ladies...

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