A TURQUOISE, SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND FRINGE NECKLACE, BY DAVID WEBB

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A TURQUOISE, SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND FRINGE NECKLACE, BY DAVID WEBB
Designed as an alternating line of cabochon turquoise and cushion-cut sapphires, suspending an oval-cut sapphire and circular-cut diamond swagged fringe, terminating in cabochon turquoise, mounted in platinum and gold, circa 1965, 15¼ ins., in a David Webb gray envelope case

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Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

Doris Duke commissioned this necklace from David Webb with stones from her collection or possibly from one of her mother's sapphire pieces she inherited in 1962 and disassembled. Records indicate she purchased it with a bracelet en suite, lot 35, on 8 May 1965 and paid $1,800.

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