Live Auction 2447Important English, Continental and American Silver and Gold
A FRENCH VARI-COLORED GOLD LADY'S TOILET SERVICE
Lot 12 PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST COLLECTOR

A FRENCH VARI-COLORED GOLD LADY'S TOILET SERVICE

MARK OF CARTIER, PARIS, 1909-1919

Closed17 May 2011

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A FRENCH VARI-COLORED GOLD LADY'S TOILET SERVICE
MARK OF CARTIER, PARIS, 1909-1919
In the Louis XVI style, comprising six scent bottles in two sizes, four hairbrushes, two cylindrical powder boxes in sizes, hand mirror, shoe horn, a pair of scissors, dressing tray, covered box, buttonhook and buttonpull, all with guilloché ground embellished with vari-colored gold floral borders, each piece applied with the initial A beneath a Continental crown, the glass bottles etched, all set into fitted black leather case stamped Cartier, New York, Paris, London, each piece marked with French gold standard mark and/or mark of Cartier
The larger scent bottles 6 in. (15.3 cm) high; 12 oz. (325 gr.) weighable gold

Anna Thomson Dodge (1871-1970)
Yvonne Ranger, her granddaughter; then by gift to the present owner

Specialist note

This exquisite lady's toilet service formerly belonged to Anna Thomson Dodge (1871-1970), whose husband Horace E. Dodge co-founded the Dodge Motor Company in 1914. A distinguished patron and connoisseur of 18th-century French fine and decorative art, Mrs. Dodge assembled one of the world's finest collections with the help of renowned dealer Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, whose American clients included Henry Clay Frick, William Randolph Hearst, J.P. Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller. The dressing mirror from this service was sold along with the contents of Rose Terrace, Mrs. Dodge's house, by Christie's on 27-29 September 1971, lot 960.