Van Cleef & Arpels Paris Mid-Century Ring
Regular price
$13,500
Created in the 1960s, this Mid-Century feather ring by Van Cleef & Arpels Paris is composed of 18K gold and diamonds. The bombé form is designed as two sculpted and intertwined feathers with ribbed vanes that continue fully around the shank, the top highlighted by graduating lines of full-cut diamonds. A mid-century classic, this versatile Van Cleef & Arpels ring is beautifully sculptural and softly molds to the finger.
Item #: R-22023
Artist: Van Cleef & Arpels
Country: France
Circa: 1970s
Size: 6.25 (this ring can be sized; please contact the gallery for further information)
Materials: 10 round diamonds (approximate total weight 1.50 carats); 18K Gold
Gram Weight: 9.2
Signed: VAN CLEEF ET ARPELS, c, 77277, French assay marks, maker's mark
Item #: R-22023
Artist: Van Cleef & Arpels
Country: France
Circa: 1970s
Size: 6.25 (this ring can be sized; please contact the gallery for further information)
Materials: 10 round diamonds (approximate total weight 1.50 carats); 18K Gold
Gram Weight: 9.2
Signed: VAN CLEEF ET ARPELS, c, 77277, French assay marks, maker's mark
Van Cleef & Arpels draws many of its strongest and most successful themes from nature. Even when the motifs are abstracted, as here, this sensitivity to the forms of birds, flowers and animals invigorates the design with an organic quality and sense of movement and fluidity.
Van Cleef & Arpels draws many of its strongest and most successful themes from nature. Even when the motifs are abstracted, as here, this sensitivity to the forms of birds, flowers and animals invigorates the design with an organic quality and sense of movement and fluidity.
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