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Lot 55

OPAL RING, CIRCA 1965

London Jewels

2 December 2021, 11:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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OPAL RING, CIRCA 1965

The oval opal cabochon within a textured openwork mount, ring size N½, together with a certificate of purchase dated 20th June 1978

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Provenance
Joan Crawford, born Lucille Faye LeSueur (1908?-1977)
Purchased by Ruth Schabel, 20 June 1978

Joan Crawford (c.1908-1977) was one of the biggest film stars during Hollywood's Golden Age. An Academy Award-winning actress, her career spanned 45 years and she appeared in over eighty films. The New York Times described her as "a quintessential superstar—an epitome of timeless glamour who personified for decades the dreams and disappointments of millions of American women." Crawford's breakthrough role was as flapper Diana Medford, in the film "Our Dancing Daughters" (1928). In 1945, she starred in the role of the long-suffering mother, "Mildred Pierce", winning an Academy Award. This was followed by two subsequent Academy Award nominations. Her final blockbuster film role was in the psychological thriller, "What ever happened to Baby Jane?" (1962). In 1970, she received the Cecile B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.

Crawford loved jewellery and amassed an impressive collection of bold statement pieces, largely by American jewellers, over the course of her lifetime. Like most leading Hollywood actresses of her generation, she paired impressive jewels with designer clothes - both on and offstage - to augment her glamorous movie star image. After Crawford's death in May 1977, what remained of her jewellery collection was dispersed. On 19th January 1978, numerous items, including costume jewellery, from her estate were sold at the Plaza Art Gallery, New York. Following this, jewellery from her estate was sold at Christie's, New York on 1st March and 11th April 1978. This ring was purchased by the owner's late wife from a jeweller in Los Angeles on 20 June 1978.

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