Cartier | Pair of Yellow Sapphire, Onyx, Enamel, Seed Pearl and Diamond Pendant-Earclips 卡地亞 黃色剛玉配縞瑪瑙、祖母綠、小顆珍珠及鑽石耳墜一對
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December 7, 08:52 PM GMT
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40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Cartier | Pair of Yellow Sapphire, Onyx, Enamel, Seed Pearl and Diamond Pendant-Earclips
Each designed as stylized fuchsia, the onyx stem leading to a black enameled cap, suspending a lily of the valley fringe and round pearl, anchored by pear-shaped yellow sapphires, set throughout with old European- and single-cut diamonds, one earclip signed Cartier; circa 1919. With fitted box.
For earclips of nearly identical design, see Cartier, Innovation through the 20th Century, the catalogue for the Moscow Kremlin Museums exhibition 25 May - 25 August 2007, page 106; Cartier by Hans Nadelhoffer, page 192; Cartier l'Album by José Alvarez; Retrospective Louis Cartier: One Hundred and one Years of the Jeweler's Art, by Hans Nadelhoffer, cat. 24; L'Art de Cartier, by Thérèse Burollet, Yves Chazal and Sylvie-Jan Piver-Soyez, cat. 178; Cartier 1900-1939 by Judy Rudoe, cat. 177; and El Arte de Cartier - Resplandor del Tiempo by Rafael Tovar, Geraldo Estrada, Éric Nussbaum, Carlos Monsivais, Agustin Arteaga, and Alfonso Alfaro, p. 132.
Please note the pearls have not been tested for natural origin.
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