Art Deco Sapphire & Diamond Navette Ring base metal with intricate honeycomb design

with intricate honeycomb design

Such items were obviously deeply intimate

wires are 9k gold and pigs are silver gilt

and cunning in equal measure

Art Deco Sapphire & Diamond Navette Ring base metal with intricate honeycomb designDATE: Art Deco, c. 1930 Striking Art Deco period navette ring dating from the 1930s. The term navette interchangeable with marquise comes from the French word for a weaver's shuttle, literally "little ship", and as such these rings are also sometimes referred to as boat rings (and this one's particularly boat like). Three principal stones, an oval faceted blue sapphire and two old Euro diamonds, are arranged in a line down the middle, surrounded to