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modelled on a Chinese paper lantern, with vertical rows of graduated calibre cut emeralds and sapphires which mimic cuts in the paper to reveal different colours, each horizontal row of diamonds is ingeniously articulated so the pendant moves like fabric, flanked on either side by two brilliant cut diamond drops, with a pear shaped diamond drop at the base, suspended from a diamond set loop with a collar of calibre cut emeralds.
Accompanied by a spectacle set diamond chain.
Length of pendant: 5cm
A design for a similarly articulated pendant, likewise based on a Chinese paper lantern, is reproduced on page 103 of ‘Van Cleef and Arpels’ by Sylvie Raulet (1986).