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A DIAMOND AND 18K GOLD FLORAL BANGLE
The central section designed as a pavé-set diamond and polished gold detachable flowerhead with circular-cut diamond centre to the polished gold hinged tapering band, circa 1940, 16.5 cm., in a red leather fitted case (flowerhead detachable for use as a clip brooch)
Signed by Cartier, London, no. 9874
During the 1940s, Cartier retained its lead in exciting and up to the minute design in precious materials. This bold bangle, oozing confidence and glamour, illustrates the effervescent "cocktail" style of the late 1930s and 1940s, in which figurative forms, flowers in particular, crept back into fashion after the abstraction of the 1930s, yet retained a strong styization of form. Yellow gold became popular again in the late 1930s, and curvaceous expanses of gold were mixed with diamonds or with massive semi precious stones.
The central section designed as a pavé-set diamond and polished gold detachable flowerhead with circular-cut diamond centre to the polished gold hinged tapering band, circa 1940, 16.5 cm., in a red leather fitted case (flowerhead detachable for use as a clip brooch)
Signed by Cartier, London, no. 9874
During the 1940s, Cartier retained its lead in exciting and up to the minute design in precious materials. This bold bangle, oozing confidence and glamour, illustrates the effervescent "cocktail" style of the late 1930s and 1940s, in which figurative forms, flowers in particular, crept back into fashion after the abstraction of the 1930s, yet retained a strong styization of form. Yellow gold became popular again in the late 1930s, and curvaceous expanses of gold were mixed with diamonds or with massive semi precious stones.