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HIGHLY IMPORTANT ART DECO RUBY AND DIAMOND NECKLACE
The front section designed as two oval and circular-cut ruby and baguette and circular-cut diamond motifs, attached to a baguette and circular-cut diamond back chain, with a pear-shaped ruby and diamond clasp, mounted in platinum (the front section may be worn as a pair of clips)--17¼ in. long
Signed by Cartier, London, No. 4833
In 1919, Jacques Cartier opened a salon in London, initially offering selections from their Paris store. Within two years, a workshop was set up, producing distinctive jewels for their British clientele. Gradually the London store became autonomous, offering different designs from those in their Parisian house. Craftsmen as well as designers were hired from London, with the exception of Peter Lemarchand who came over from Paris in 1935 and stayed until the outbreak of World War II. Cartier commissioned several subsidy companies to produce a portion of their jewelry and objet's d'art, such as the English Art Works, which had begun in the cartier workshops, specializing in platinum jewelry and important necklaces.
Multipurpose jewelry was fashionable through the 1930s. This necklace, produced at Cartier, London, is embellished with two detachable ornaments in the form of clusters of rubies and diamonds which could be seperated and worn as brooches. The two decorative motifs are closely represented in shape without being symetrical, in the manner of a hand-knotted bow tie, and blend with one another exquisitely by a careful selection of matched Burma rubies and diamonds. (reference: Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier Jewellers Extrodinary, New York, 1984, pp. 240-243) (3)
The front section designed as two oval and circular-cut ruby and baguette and circular-cut diamond motifs, attached to a baguette and circular-cut diamond back chain, with a pear-shaped ruby and diamond clasp, mounted in platinum (the front section may be worn as a pair of clips)--17¼ in. long
Signed by Cartier, London, No. 4833
In 1919, Jacques Cartier opened a salon in London, initially offering selections from their Paris store. Within two years, a workshop was set up, producing distinctive jewels for their British clientele. Gradually the London store became autonomous, offering different designs from those in their Parisian house. Craftsmen as well as designers were hired from London, with the exception of Peter Lemarchand who came over from Paris in 1935 and stayed until the outbreak of World War II. Cartier commissioned several subsidy companies to produce a portion of their jewelry and objet's d'art, such as the English Art Works, which had begun in the cartier workshops, specializing in platinum jewelry and important necklaces.
Multipurpose jewelry was fashionable through the 1930s. This necklace, produced at Cartier, London, is embellished with two detachable ornaments in the form of clusters of rubies and diamonds which could be seperated and worn as brooches. The two decorative motifs are closely represented in shape without being symetrical, in the manner of a hand-knotted bow tie, and blend with one another exquisitely by a careful selection of matched Burma rubies and diamonds. (reference: Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier Jewellers Extrodinary, New York, 1984, pp. 240-243) (3)