A ruby and diamond ring, circa 1910
The step-cut ruby within an oval pierced surround of four millegrain-set marquise-cut diamonds, between trifurcated shoulders, diamonds approximately 1.40 carats total, ring size E½, green leather Cartier case
Sold for
£8,400
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
Mrs Betty Arnett (her private secretary)
By descent to the current owner
This ring belonged to the novelist, poet and gardener, Vita Sackville-West, who is best remembered for her unorthodox marriage to the writer and diplomat Sir Harold Nicolson, her affair with Virginia Woolf during the 1920s and for creating some of the most admired and influential English gardens of the 20th century at her home, Sissinghurst Castle. Sackville-West gifted this ring to her private secretary, Mrs Betty Arnett, on her death in 1962. This lot is accompanied by copies of letters from Sackville-West to Mrs Arnett.
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