Bulgari Ruby and diamond brooch, 1970s
The barbed quatrefoil pavé-set with brilliant-cut diamonds centering a calibré-cut ruby hammer and sickle, signed Bulgari, maker's mark for Bulgari, Italian maker's and assay marks for platinum.
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Signed BVLGARI. Maker's mark for Bulgari, Italian maker's mark. Italian assay mark and stamped 950PT for platinum. Pin stamped 18K for 18 carat gold. Rubies slightly purplish red of medium saturation, slightly included. Diamonds estimated to weigh a total of approximately 1.20 - 1.50 carats, on average G-H colour, VS clarity, as gauged and graded in the mount. Light scratching to the metal. In very good condition consistent with age and wear. Measuring approximately 20 x 20mm. Gross weight approximately 8 grams.
Catalogue Note:
This brooch recalls how left-wing political sympathies were widespread in Italian fashionable and intellectual circles during the 1970s. At the time the Italian communist party was the second largest party in the country which was going through a tumultuous decade that saw the kidnapping of several high-profile industrialists and politicians.
The mood of Italian society in the 1960s and 1970s is immortalised by the legendary generation of Italian filmmakers that included Frederico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Pier Paolo Pasolini. They used experimental and innovative imagery, non-linear storytelling and slow pacing to give expression to typical left-wing subjects such as the inherent emptiness and loneliness of modern urban living, commercialisation and its corruption of society and the demise of traditional sexual mores. Very often these films focused on the existential angst of bourgeois intellectuals and portrayed the existence of the self-absorbed upper classes in a way that laid bare their futility, emptiness and decadence.
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Lot 474, Sotheby's St. Moritz 22 and 23 February 1991
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The barbed quatrefoil pavé-set with brilliant-cut diamonds centering a calibré-cut ruby hammer and sickle, signed Bulgari, maker's mark for Bulgari, Italian maker's and assay marks for platinum.
Condition Report:
Please note that, due to recently imposed trade restrictions on certain diamonds and diamond jewellery, certain lots cannot be shipped outside of the country of sale. For further information on specific lots please contact the department. As per Sotheby’s Conditions of Business for Buyers inability to export a purchased lot will not justify cancellation or rescission of the sale or excuse any delay in payment.
Signed BVLGARI. Maker's mark for Bulgari, Italian maker's mark. Italian assay mark and stamped 950PT for platinum. Pin stamped 18K for 18 carat gold. Rubies slightly purplish red of medium saturation, slightly included. Diamonds estimated to weigh a total of approximately 1.20 - 1.50 carats, on average G-H colour, VS clarity, as gauged and graded in the mount. Light scratching to the metal. In very good condition consistent with age and wear. Measuring approximately 20 x 20mm. Gross weight approximately 8 grams.
Catalogue Note:
This brooch recalls how left-wing political sympathies were widespread in Italian fashionable and intellectual circles during the 1970s. At the time the Italian communist party was the second largest party in the country which was going through a tumultuous decade that saw the kidnapping of several high-profile industrialists and politicians.
The mood of Italian society in the 1960s and 1970s is immortalised by the legendary generation of Italian filmmakers that included Frederico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Pier Paolo Pasolini. They used experimental and innovative imagery, non-linear storytelling and slow pacing to give expression to typical left-wing subjects such as the inherent emptiness and loneliness of modern urban living, commercialisation and its corruption of society and the demise of traditional sexual mores. Very often these films focused on the existential angst of bourgeois intellectuals and portrayed the existence of the self-absorbed upper classes in a way that laid bare their futility, emptiness and decadence.
Provenance:
Lot 474, Sotheby's St. Moritz 22 and 23 February 1991
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