AN ART DECO MULTI-GEM AND DIAMOND "TUTTI-FRUTTI" BRACELET, BY CARTIER

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AN ART DECO MULTI-GEM AND DIAMOND "TUTTI-FRUTTI" BRACELET, BY CARTIER

Designed as three strands of graduated sapphire beads to the single and French-cut diamond mitre-shaped clasp, accented by carved emerald leaves and cabochon rubies, sapphires, emeralds and amethysts, mounted in platinum, circa 1935, 16.5 cm., with French assay marks for platinum and gold

Signed Cartier Paris, no. L2984

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Cartier

Exhibited

"The World of French Jewelry Art - The Art of Cartier", Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, 1995, page 252, number 261

Further details

"Tutti-Frutti" or "fruit salad" - the name still known today throughout the world - is one of the most successful designs in Cartier's jewellery creations of the early 20th century. Greatly influenced by the East where colour dominates over form and feeling over rationality, this creative usage of coloured stones in their different shapes (spherical or leaf-shaped) and surfaces (smooth or engraved) give the jewels a full three-dimensional and luxurious image.

Lot Essay

cf Hans Nadelhoffer, "Cartier", Paris, 1984, plate 46

cf David Bennett, Daniela Mascetti, "Understanding Jewellery", Suffolk, 1989, page 309, plate 580

US$15,000-22,000

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