modelled as an elaborate bouquet of flowers tied with a ribbon, with eight petalled blossoms and stylised foliage, set with brilliant cut diamonds and interspersed with cabochon sapphires, emeralds and rubies, the ribbon mounted with French cut diamonds, mounted in platinum.
Signed: LACLOCHE FRES
Numbered: 2005
Length: 6cm
Accompanied by its original tooled pink leather presentation case, the lid satin stamped ‘Lacloche Fres, 15 Rue de la Paix, Paris. 3 New Bond Street, London.’
Illustrated
For further information about Lacloche Frères, see ‘Lacloche Joailliers’ by Laurence Mouillefarine and Véronique Ristelhueber.
The firm Lacloche Frères was established following the death of Jacques Lacloche in 1900, when his remaining brothers went into business together. By the following year, they had settled at 15 Rue de la Paix in Paris. The firm specialised in the finest jewellery and objets de vertu, collaborating with some of the most famous workshops working in Paris. By 1908, they had a total of seven stores across Europe, including a shop on Bond Street in London. In 1917, they acquired the stock of Carl Fabergé’s Bond Street shop when it was forced to close following the Russian Revolution.
The firm also acquired the famous pink Agra diamond in 1904 and were commissioned to make an extraordinary Art Deco diadem which contained the Arcot diamonds for Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, for her wedding in 1930.