HELIOTROPE, RUBY AND GOLD HANDLE, ca. 1860.

Yellow gold, 51g.
Cylindrical handle, decorated with an applied, ruby-set ring and a band motif with geometrical elements on sablé ground. The terminal set with 1 bouton-shaped heliotrope of ca. 3,3 cm Ø, held within a gold plated silver setting with lily- and ruby-set flower motifs. Total weight of rubies ca. 1.40 ct. L ca. 4,6 cm.

Provenance:
-Duchess of Richelieu, later Princess Alice of Monaco.
-Odile de Richelieu, married to Count Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld.
-Through inheritance to Marquis and Marquise de Amodio y Moya.
The proceeds of this lot will be donated to the "Fondation Saint-Antoine".