This month wraps up the summer auctions for fine jewelry in New York and Boston. As I was looking through the auction catalogs I saw a necklace in the sale of Christie’s jewels that had me take a second look at the description and mark it as a must see when I came to the auction house this past weekend. It was a beautiful multi- colored sapphire necklace. Shown below:
What had me take a second look was the designer…
That’s right, David Webb. The same David Webb whose other jewels in the same auction look like this:
No date is given, so it might have been a special commission. Either way I wanted to get a look at the … Read the rest