18kt Gold, Ruby, Cultured Pearl Lips Brooch, Henryk Kaston, designed by Dali

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18kt Gold, Ruby, Cultured Pearl Lips Brooch, Henryk Kaston, designed by Dali, bead-set with approx. 212 ruby melee, enclosing ten white pearl teeth, 50 mm x 35 mm, unsigned. Note: Kaston, whose work has been exhibited at the Met, the Vatican and the Smithsonian, is the only living jeweler to have worked with Dali. A person of many accomplishments, Kaston is also a sculptor, inventor and violin bow maker. Dali said of this design: "Poets of the ages, of all lands, write of ruby lips and teeth of pearls. It remained for Dali to translate this poetic cliche into a true surrealistic object."
Estimate $4,000-6,000

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