A PAIR OF EMERALD EAR CLIPS, BY CARTIER

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A PAIR OF EMERALD EAR CLIPS, BY CARTIER
The circular-cut emerald leaves, with circular-cut emerald trim, further enhanced by green enamel beads, mounted in 18k gold, (one enamel bead with damage), circa 1967, with French assay marks and maker's marks
Signed Cartier Paris, no. R8427; with maker's mark for Cartier (2)

Provenance

Anonymous; Cartier Paris, 8 June 1967
Sotheby's New York, 12 June 1991, lot 283, $99,000

Special notice

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

These ear clips were purchased from Cartier Paris in 1967 by an anonymous client. On 12 May 1976, the client replaced all the diamonds with 100 emeralds. When they went up for auction at Sotheby's New York in 1991, Doris Duke purchased them against a pre-sale estimate of $40,000-60,000.

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