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ART DECO DIAMOND, RUBY, ENAMEL AND GOLD COMPACT
Designed as a multicolor enamel and gold cylinder, decorated with diamond collets, with a diamond and ruby thumb piece, opening to reveal a mirror and a powder and puff compartment, circa 1925, in a suede slipcase--3 x 2 x 1¼ in.
Signed by Cartier, Paris, No. 01308
The Art Deco period saw the emergence of many exotic inspirations, Eygptian, Indian and Chinese, on Cartier's repetorie of Jewelry and objets d'art. Beginning in 1923, after the Paris Opera Chinese Ball, there was a decided chinoiserie influence on their vanity cases, clocks and scent bottles. Chinese lacquers and mother-of-pearl were the dominant materials incorporated onto the surface of their vanity cases; enamels used less frequently. Motifs included Chinese geometrical patterns such as the abbreviated meander design in the center section on this vanity case. The composition on the boarder, rendered in guilloche with translucent enameling, is based on the continuos stem principal, evident on the Chinese enamelware where branches reach out to embrace flowers. (Reference, Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier Jewelers Extraodinary, New York, 1984, pp. 197-206)
Designed as a multicolor enamel and gold cylinder, decorated with diamond collets, with a diamond and ruby thumb piece, opening to reveal a mirror and a powder and puff compartment, circa 1925, in a suede slipcase--3 x 2 x 1¼ in.
Signed by Cartier, Paris, No. 01308
The Art Deco period saw the emergence of many exotic inspirations, Eygptian, Indian and Chinese, on Cartier's repetorie of Jewelry and objets d'art. Beginning in 1923, after the Paris Opera Chinese Ball, there was a decided chinoiserie influence on their vanity cases, clocks and scent bottles. Chinese lacquers and mother-of-pearl were the dominant materials incorporated onto the surface of their vanity cases; enamels used less frequently. Motifs included Chinese geometrical patterns such as the abbreviated meander design in the center section on this vanity case. The composition on the boarder, rendered in guilloche with translucent enameling, is based on the continuos stem principal, evident on the Chinese enamelware where branches reach out to embrace flowers. (Reference, Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier Jewelers Extraodinary, New York, 1984, pp. 197-206)