Lot no. 171
CARTIER
SIOUX INDIAN HEAD" BROOCH
In yellow gold and blackened silver, the face applied with red lacquer, the headdress and feathers in ivory and black lacquer, the headband set with small rose-cut diamonds finished with two turquoise cabochons in the ears.
Signed and numbered.
Circa 1938.
A rose cut diamond, 18k gold, silver and coloured lacquer "Sioux indian head" brooch, by Cartier. Circa 1938.
Bibliography: Etourdissant Cartier, la création depuis 1937, Editions du regard, page 48.
L'art de Cartier, exhibition catalogue at the Musée du Petit Palais, 20 October 1989 to 28 January 1990, page 157, lot 471.
RC :
Several missing lacquers.
Numbered: 08000.L
Size: 3 x 2.8 cm.
Gross weight: 13.9 g (18k - 750).
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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