Important and beautiful platinum (950) navette-shaped pendant plate, delicately openworked with veins of pearled filaments and lines of old-cut and rose-cut diamonds in pearl-grained or pearl-close settings, punctuated with four old-cut cushion-cut rubies and centered with a larger old-cut mobile diamond, set in a surround of calibrated rubies. Circa 1915-20. Accompanied by a platinum (950) forçat link pendant chain punctuated with old-cut diamonds in a closed setting. Spring-ring clasp and fasteners. Brooch system missing. Total gross weight: 23.6 g. Pendant size: 5 x 6.6 cm. Chain length: 43 cm. Small chips.

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