Description
Nuri, the parrot, is one of the most recognisable creations of Boucheron’s Animaux de Collection — the animal kingdom that has been a signature of the Place Vendôme maison since its earliest years. Nuri means “parrot” in Indonesian, and Boucheron reads the bird’s plumage as the elements of life themselves: sun, water and fire.
This white gold version is built around a pear-shaped aquamarine of exceptional size and clarity, held in the bird’s talons and tilted so that light enters the pavilion while the ring is worn. The plumage is entirely pavé-set: blue sapphires run across the head and upper body, yellow sapphires shade the breast, tsavorite garnets are scattered through the wings, and brilliant-cut diamonds brighten the beak and the eye. Fine black detailing draws the individual feathers, outlines the polished white gold beak and rings the eye, whose pupil is a cabochon blue sapphire.
The bird is a fully three-dimensional sculpture rather than a motif applied to a band — the shank runs into its underside and the attachment points disappear into the form. Crafted in 18K white gold, signed and numbered inside the shank, and not resizable.
