VAN CLEEF & ARPELS SUITE OF TURQUOISE AND DIAMOND ‘LIBERTÉ’...

VAN CLEEF & ARPELS SUITE OF TURQUOISE AND DIAMOND ‘LIBERTÉ’ JEWELLERY
Comprising a necklace, a pair of earrings and a tiara
Pear and cushion-shaped cabochon turquoises, round diamonds, 18k yellow gold (French marks), the pendent drops to the necklace may be detached to form pendent earrings and a tiara, 1960s, necklace and earrings signed Van Cleef & Arpels, tiara signed V.C.A, each with maker’s mark and numbered, light grey fitted Van Cleef & Arpels cases

Size/Dimensions: necklace 37.1 cm long; earrings 4.8 cm high, detachable earring pendent 2.5 cm high; tiara inner circumference 35.0 cm, 5.5 cm high
Gross weight: 250.8 grams

Provenance
Cf. S. Papi, A. Rhodes, 20th Century Jewelry & The Icons of Style, Thames & Hudson, London, 2016, p. 274 portrait of Hèléne Rochas wearing the same model of the necklace, p. 275
Cf. V. Meylan, Trésors et Lègendes, Van Cleef & Arpels, Éditions Télémaque, Paris, 2012, p. 384 for the same model of the necklace, p. 385 portrait of Maria Callas wearing the same model of the necklace