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BOUCHERON - "Serpent de Bohème" - Pair of earrings...

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BOUCHERON - "Serpent de Bohème" - Pair of earrings in 18K yellow gold (750 thousandths) with a textured coiled pattern adorned, at the end, with a piriform pattern paved with brilliant-cut diamonds, the beaded border. Hallmark André Vassort? The André Vassort workshop made jewelry for many years for the Place Vendôme and especially Boucheron and Van Cleef Arpels. For non-pierced ears, safety racket. P. Gross weight: 19,9 g. Dimension of a loop: 2 x 2,7 cm approximately. In 1888, Frederic Boucheron gave his wife a necklace in the shape of a snake to protect her during her travels. Since then, this protective animal motif has become a Boucheron classic. First leaving the House's workshop in 1968, the Serpent Bohème collection has endured through the ages while maintaining its modernity. In 2017, the new creative director, Claire Choisne, is giving this line a makeover for the first time after nearly 50 years by giving it the sparkle of colored stones...