Lot 4
4
A SAPPHIRE AND ENGINE-TURNED MINAUDIÈRE, the fitted interior with various compartments including a removable powder compact, lipstick holder, comb and lighter (cigarette case deficient); the cover and sides engine-turned with invisibly-set sapphire bombé clasp, circa 1935, in original red leather travelling case

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A SAPPHIRE AND ENGINE-TURNED MINAUDIÈRE, the fitted interior with various compartments including a removable powder compact, lipstick holder, comb and lighter (cigarette case deficient); the cover and sides engine-turned with invisibly-set sapphire bombé clasp, circa 1935, in original red leather travelling case
15.0cm.
Signed La Minaudière de Van Cleef & Arpels, No. 61465

Cf. Paris Musees, 'Van Cleef & Arpels,' Palais Galliera 1992,
p. 156

Lot Essay

The term 'minaudière' was first used by Alfred Van Cleef in the early 1930s. It was an improvement on the vanity cases that were then in use as it contained compartments for cosmetics as well as cigarettes.

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