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TWO MULTI-GEM DUCK BROOCHES, BY CARTIER
Comprising a 'cowboy duck' brooch, with carved agate body and gold beak, coral feet and circular-cut sapphire eye, wearing a gold cowboy hat and neck scarf, with gold holster and coral pistol, circa 1950, 2 ins., mounted in 18k gold; and a chick brooch, designed as a sculpted gold chick with circular-cut ruby eye, emerging from a cracked carved agate egg, circa 1950, 1 1/4 ins., mounted in 18k gold
Signed Cartier, France, no. 13332, with maker's mark (cowboy duck); signed Cartier, France, no. 13071, with maker's mark (chick)
Comprising a 'cowboy duck' brooch, with carved agate body and gold beak, coral feet and circular-cut sapphire eye, wearing a gold cowboy hat and neck scarf, with gold holster and coral pistol, circa 1950, 2 ins., mounted in 18k gold; and a chick brooch, designed as a sculpted gold chick with circular-cut ruby eye, emerging from a cracked carved agate egg, circa 1950, 1 1/4 ins., mounted in 18k gold
Signed Cartier, France, no. 13332, with maker's mark (cowboy duck); signed Cartier, France, no. 13071, with maker's mark (chick)
Literature
Cf. M. Chapman, Cartier and America, San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and DelMonico Books, 2009, p. 109
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