EARLY 20TH CENTURY PLATINUM, OLD EUROPEAN CUT DIAMOND AND LAPIS LAZULI FLEXIBLE-LINK BRACELET. Fourteen 6.5 mm lapis beads alternate with geometric and floral links variously set with two, three, and four Old European cut diamonds; total of 42 diamonds together weighing app. 2.50 ct.; concealed tongue-and-groove clasp with hinged fold-over safety hasp. - L: 7 1/4 in. Estimate $1,000-1,500
PROVENANCE: Estate of Alexandra McCain Morgan and Henry Sturgis Morgan, Jr., Annapolis, MD
By family descent from Catherine Frances Lovering Adams Morgan (1902–1988), daughter of Frances Lovering and Charles Francis Adams III, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Hebert Hoover, and a direct descendant of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and wife of Henry Sturgis Morgan, Sr., co-founder of Morgan Stanley and the President & Chairman of the Morgan Library & Museum.
