Strauss & co - 22 November 2010, Cape Town

27 26 White stone ring claw-set with a pear-shaped synthetic spinel, weighing approximately 13 carats, the shoulders part-set with four lines of old-cut diamonds, size O 1 / 2 R6 000 – 8 000 PROVENANCE Lady Kenmare. This ring is a copy of a diamond owned by Lady Kenmare and thence by descent to her daughter, The Hon. Patricia Cavendish O’Neill 27 Diamond ring of bombé open work design, set with graduated lines of old-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds, size O 1 / 2 , the shank engraved with the number 30009 R15 000 – 20 000 By family tradition, this ring was bought at Cartier, Nice, by Enid Countess of Kenmare, for her daughter Patricia on the occasion of her engagement to Frank O’Neill, in 1948. cf. Sotheby’s, London, Antique and Contemporary Jewels, 13 June 2007, Lot 216, where a similar ring, made by Cartier in 1995, was sold. PROVENANCE The Hon. Patricia Cavendish O’Neill The Honorable Patricia Cavendish O’Neill photograph by Anthony Armstrong Jones LITERATURE A Lion in the Bedroom , Pat Cavendish O’Neill, published jointly by Park Street Press and Media 21 Publishing, 2004, p 209 28 Single-row cultured pearl necklace comprising sixty-three graduated cultured pearls measuring 3,5mm-7mm, to a clasp set with a rectangular emerald-cut sapphire, approximately 40cm long R3 000 – 4 000 PROVENANCE The Hon. Patricia Cavendish O’Neill