Macklowe Gallery French Mid-Century Ruby and Diamond Earrings

French Mid-Century Ruby and Diamond Earrings

Name: French Mid-Century Ruby and Diamond Earrings
Brand: Macklowe Gallery
SKU: ER-22345
Price: 23000.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$23,000

Created by the workshop of woman jeweler Raymonde Muse Sarrazy, Paris, these platinum, ruby, and diamond earrings date from the 1960s–1970s. Each bombé, stylized leaf earring is pavé-set with circular-cut rubies, edged by marquise and baguette-cut diamonds, and set on a graduating baguette-cut diamond stem, mounted in platinum and 18K gold. Luxuriantly red and sparkling, these superb earrings are the work of a mysterious mid-century woman jeweler who manufactured high style work for Cartier, Boucheron and Bulgari.

Category: Earrings Gifts $20,000 - $50,000 Jewelry New Acquisitions Ruby Red

Product Details

Item #: ER-22345
Artist: Raymonde Sarrazy
Country: France
Circa: 1960s–1970s
Dimensions: 1.125" length, 0.75" width.
Materials: 60 circular-cut rubies (approximate total weight 5.25 carats); 74 baguette diamonds (approximate total weight 2.75 carats); 8 marquise-cut diamonds (approximate total weight 1.92 carats); Platinum; 18K Gold
Gram Weight: 18.7
Signed: Raymonde Sarrazy maker's marks, French assay marks for platinum and 18K gold, Or 750

Product Details

Item #: ER-22345
Artist: Raymonde Sarrazy
Country: France
Circa: 1960s–1970s
Dimensions: 1.125" length, 0.75" width.
Materials: 60 circular-cut rubies (approximate total weight 5.25 carats); 74 baguette diamonds (approximate total weight 2.75 carats); 8 marquise-cut diamonds (approximate total weight 1.92 carats); Platinum; 18K Gold
Gram Weight: 18.7
Signed: Raymonde Sarrazy maker's marks, French assay marks for platinum and 18K gold, Or 750

Curator's Notes

Raymonde Muse Sarazzy registered her mark in 1958, in a time when women still could not own a business or bank account without her husband's sponsorship. Her workshop was located at 16, rue de la Liberté, in the 19th arrondissement, northeast but within walking distance of the Marais. Throughout the 19th until the mid-late 20th century, the area had a mixed character, with both residential and old industrial facilities. In the 1960s and 1970s, it housed foundries, chain manufactories, and lapidaries , some producing work for the great Place Vendôme maisons. Remarkably, Sarrazy produced high style, gem-set jewels for Boucheron, Cartier and even Bulgari. A rare and important Bulgari "Buddha Necklace", manufactured by Sarrazy in 1972, is pictured on the back cover of the Sotheby's Magnificent and Noble Jewels auction catalogue of 17 May 2024, lot 572. A further example of Sarrazy work is a another pair of mid-century ruby and diamond earrings –in a boteh motif– for Cartier Paris.

Curator's Notes

Raymonde Muse Sarazzy registered her mark in 1958, in a time when women still could not own a business or bank account without her husband's sponsorship. Her workshop was located at 16, rue de la Liberté, in the 19th arrondissement, northeast but within walking distance of the Marais. Throughout the 19th until the mid-late 20th century, the area had a mixed character, with both residential and old industrial facilities. In the 1960s and 1970s, it housed foundries, chain manufactories, and lapidaries , some producing work for the great Place Vendôme maisons. Remarkably, Sarrazy produced high style, gem-set jewels for Boucheron, Cartier and even Bulgari. A rare and important Bulgari "Buddha Necklace", manufactured by Sarrazy in 1972, is pictured on the back cover of the Sotheby's Magnificent and Noble Jewels auction catalogue of 17 May 2024, lot 572. A further example of Sarrazy work is a another pair of mid-century ruby and diamond earrings –in a boteh motif– for Cartier Paris.