A RARE ART DECO AGATE, DIAMOND ONYX AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY CARTIER
A RARE ART DECO AGATE, DIAMOND ONYX AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY CARTIER

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A RARE ART DECO AGATE, DIAMOND ONYX AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY CARTIER
The sculpted rose-cut diamond panther, with black enamelled spots, reclining on an agate and onyx plinth, mounted in platinum, circa 1928, with French assay marks
Signed Cartier, Paris, Made in France
Provenance
Designed for American boxer Gene Tunney by Cartier and produced by the Lavabre workshop
Literature
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Retrospective Louis Cartier: Masterworks of Art Deco", The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1982, plate 32

Hans Nadelhoffer, "Cartier: Jewelers Extraordinary", Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1984, page 21

A. Kenneth Snowman, "The Master Jewelers", Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1990, page 193

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