NOT SOLD. Cusi: A sapphire and diamond necklace with a pear-shaped natural blue Burma sapphire weighing 33.14 ct. and sapphires and diamonds, mounted in 18k white gold – Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers of Fine Art
Cusi
An important Burma sapphire and diamond necklace set with a pear-shaped natural Burma sapphire weighing app. 33.14 ct. encircled by numerous oval-cut presumably natural sapphires weighing a total of app. 10.00 ct. and brilliant-cut diamonds weighing a total of app. 34.00 ct., mounted in 18k white gold. Colour: Top Wesselton-Top Crystal (G-I). Clarity: VS-SI. L. app. 40.5 cm. Milan, circa 1980–90.
Accompanied by GRS report no. GRS2008–031727 indicating, “Origin: Characteristics corresponding to those of a natural sapphire from Burma. No indication of thermal treatment”. Switzerland, 2008.
“The firm was founded in 1886 in Milan by Annibale Cusi (1863–1930), a gifted jeweller who began his apprenticeship at the early age of nine. Well-known among the Milanese aristocracy he gained an international reputation at the 1906 Milan Universal Exposition, where he won first prize for an articulated necklace called ”Mary Stuart“ which evokes the Queen of Scots' lace ruffs. This necklace was set with 15,000 diamonds and mounted in ”platinuralium" an exceedingly light alloy invented by Cusi and composed of platinum, gold, silver and aluminium. A jeweller of the time and following closely the Parisian jewellers' works and novelties, Cusi was always very attentive to the quality of his creations and also when it came to the gems he used to adorn them with. The ownership of the firm has remained in family for four generations. Since the sixties, it has been located via Montenapoleone, a street of luxury residences, antique shops and jewellers that served a traditionally loyal clientele".
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Cusi
An important Burma sapphire and diamond necklace set with a pear-shaped natural Burma sapphire weighing app. 33.14 ct. encircled by numerous oval-cut presumably natural sapphires weighing a total of app. 10.00 ct. and brilliant-cut diamonds weighing a total of app. 34.00 ct., mounted in 18k white gold. Colour: Top Wesselton-Top Crystal (G-I). Clarity: VS-SI. L. app. 40.5 cm. Milan, circa 1980–90.
Accompanied by GRS report no. GRS2008–031727 indicating, “Origin: Characteristics corresponding to those of a natural sapphire from Burma. No indication of thermal treatment”. Switzerland, 2008.
“The firm was founded in 1886 in Milan by Annibale Cusi (1863–1930), a gifted jeweller who began his apprenticeship at the early age of nine. Well-known among the Milanese aristocracy he gained an international reputation at the 1906 Milan Universal Exposition, where he won first prize for an articulated necklace called ”Mary Stuart“ which evokes the Queen of Scots' lace ruffs. This necklace was set with 15,000 diamonds and mounted in ”platinuralium" an exceedingly light alloy invented by Cusi and composed of platinum, gold, silver and aluminium. A jeweller of the time and following closely the Parisian jewellers' works and novelties, Cusi was always very attentive to the quality of his creations and also when it came to the gems he used to adorn them with. The ownership of the firm has remained in family for four generations. Since the sixties, it has been located via Montenapoleone, a street of luxury residences, antique shops and jewellers that served a traditionally loyal clientele".
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