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Lot 371
A GEM-SET 'LOVEBIRD' BROOCH, BY CARTIER
Closed3 June 2015
Price Realised
GBP 50,000
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A GEM-SET 'LOVEBIRD' BROOCH, BY CARTIER
Modelled as a pair of parakeets resting on a polished bough, their carved cabochon sapphire bodies, to turquoise bead feather heads with ruby cabochon eye detail and single-cut diamond crest, suspending similarly-set tails, circa 1955, French marks for platinum and gold, 3.8cm long, double prong fitting
Signed Cartier Paris, no.09542
Modelled as a pair of parakeets resting on a polished bough, their carved cabochon sapphire bodies, to turquoise bead feather heads with ruby cabochon eye detail and single-cut diamond crest, suspending similarly-set tails, circa 1955, French marks for platinum and gold, 3.8cm long, double prong fitting
Signed Cartier Paris, no.09542
A GEM-SET 'LOVEBIRD' BROOCH, BY CARTIER
Modelled as a pair of parakeets resting on a polished bough, their carved cabochon sapphire bodies, to turquoise bead feather heads with ruby cabochon eye detail and single-cut diamond crest, suspending similarly-set tails, circa 1955, French marks for platinum and gold, 3.8cm long, double prong fitting
Signed Cartier Paris, no.09542
Modelled as a pair of parakeets resting on a polished bough, their carved cabochon sapphire bodies, to turquoise bead feather heads with ruby cabochon eye detail and single-cut diamond crest, suspending similarly-set tails, circa 1955, French marks for platinum and gold, 3.8cm long, double prong fitting
Signed Cartier Paris, no.09542
Cf. Burollet, Thérèse, Claudel, Paul, Chazel Gilles, The Art of Cartier, Musées du Petit Palais, Paris, 1989, pg.163, fig.523, for a similar lovebird brooch with carved sapphire bodies
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