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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
3-Sep-2013
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Description:
Onyx, pink and Colourless diamond 'Love-bird' brooch, Cartier, modelled as a pair of adoring parrots perched on a twig, the head and chest pave-set with colourless round brilliant-cut diamonds, the wings and tail feathers similarly set with natural fancy pink diamonds, the beak and eyes alongwith the perch highlighted with black onyx, mounted in platinum, length approximately 40 mm, signed Cartier, numbered 818343. Accompanied by a Cartier box. Literature Coleno Nadine, Amazing Cartier Jewelry design Since 1937, Flammarion, Paris, 2009, pp. 32-33 (illustrated, another example). Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier: Jewelers Extraordinary, Thames & Hudson, great Britain, 1988, p. 35, plate 51 (illustrated, another example).
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Category:
Unclassified