~A CORAL, DIAMOND AND MULTI-GEM "BODHISATTVA HEAD" BROOCH, BY CARTIER
Lot 258 IMPORTANT 20TH CENTURY JEWELS FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION

~A CORAL, DIAMOND AND MULTI-GEM "BODHISATTVA HEAD" BROOCH, BY CARTIER

Closed20 October 2010

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~A CORAL, DIAMOND AND MULTI-GEM "BODHISATTVA HEAD" BROOCH, BY CARTIER
The carved coral head topped with a circular-cut diamond and seed pearl crown, adorned with a cabochon-cut ruby third eye and seed pearl earrings, to the double-strand seed pearl and circular-cut diamond necklace, with a sculpted gold and wirework trellis breastplate, accented by circular-cut rubies, cabochon turquoise and a circular-cut diamond, mounted in gold and platinum, 1961, with French importation mark (indistinct)
Signed Cartier, nos. HSA 1928, 5293, and 73?
With report GE2002-271 dated 12 August 2008 from Cartier Joailliers

Specialist note

Cf. Nadine Coleno, Amazing Cartier: Jewelry Design Since 1937, Flammarion, Rizzoli, 2009, page 53