细节
A RARE ART DECO MOTHER-OF-PEARL, CORAL, EMERALD, DIAMOND AND BLACK LACQUER VANITY CASE
The rectangular 18K gold case set to the front with an 18th century Chinese laque burgauté panel depicting a landscape with a Chinaman holding a cabochon emerald lamp, a rose-cut diamond moon and baguette-cut diamond water reflections, the back panel of similar decoration, with rose-cut diamond and coral batonnet borders to the black enamel and gold arrowhead motif terminals, the sides set with Chinese laque burgauté panels of abstract design, with rose-cut diamond thumb-piece, the interior with fitted mirror, lipstick and two compartments, Paris, 1924, 9.6 x 4.4 x 1.4 cm., in a red leather fitted case
Signed by Cartier, Paris, Londres, New-York, no. 0308
Cf.: Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier, Jewellers Extraordinary, Harry Abrams, New York, 1984, colour plate 38, for a similar vanity case
The rectangular 18K gold case set to the front with an 18th century Chinese laque burgauté panel depicting a landscape with a Chinaman holding a cabochon emerald lamp, a rose-cut diamond moon and baguette-cut diamond water reflections, the back panel of similar decoration, with rose-cut diamond and coral batonnet borders to the black enamel and gold arrowhead motif terminals, the sides set with Chinese laque burgauté panels of abstract design, with rose-cut diamond thumb-piece, the interior with fitted mirror, lipstick and two compartments, Paris, 1924, 9.6 x 4.4 x 1.4 cm., in a red leather fitted case
Signed by Cartier, Paris, Londres, New-York, no. 0308
Cf.: Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier, Jewellers Extraordinary, Harry Abrams, New York, 1984, colour plate 38, for a similar vanity case