The Beau Sancy.
Modified pear double rose cut, 34.98 carats total weight.
Estimate: $2 - 4 million.
Lot 264: Antique 18kt Gold, Pink Topaz, and Diamond Brooch, Retailed by Jones, Ball & Poor, Boston.
Estimate $1,500-2,000
Sold for $7,110
“…The mystic aspect of acute aesthetic surrender, that renders it so akin as an experience to what religionists term ecstatic communion, is recalled by W.H. Hudson from his boyhood life. He is speaking of the effect the sight of acacia trees had upon him: ‘The loose feathery foliage on moonlight nights had a peculiar hoary aspect that made this tree seem more intensely alive than others, more conscious of me and of my presence…Similar to a feeling a person would have if visited by a supernatural being if he was perfectly convinced that it was there in his presence, albeit silent and unseen, intently regarding him and divining every thought in his mind.’ (Ralph Waldo) Emerson is often regarded as an austere thinker, but it was Emerson as an adult who said, quite in the spirit of the passage quoted by Hudson: ‘Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thought any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.’” from John Dewey, Art As Experience, 1934.
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