The Cartier Red Peacock brooch at Sotheby’s, Hong Kong. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR $871,770
This Cartier Red Peacock brooch is one of a number of highlights at Sotheby’s autumn sale of magnificent jewels and jadeite in Hong Kong next October 7. The sale will offer a selection of jewels to epitomise the glamour of the most stylish personalities of the old and new worlds. The selection is complemented by pink, yellow and colourless diamonds, Burmese rubies, Colombian emeralds and Kashmir sapphires, to natural pearls and the finest jadeite. Around 350 lots are expected to make more than $80 million US.
From a Royal private collection the Cartier Red Peacock brooch is estimated at $400,000-500,000 US.