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Emerald, onyx and diamond bangle 'Tiger' | 卡地亞 祖母綠、縞瑪瑙及鑽石 'Tiger' 手鐲
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November 9, 08:04 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 400,000 CHF
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From a Private Collection
Emerald, onyx and diamond bangle, 'Tiger', Cartier
卡地亞 祖母綠、縞瑪瑙及鑽石 'Tiger' 手鐲
Designed as two tigers, pavé-set with brilliant-cut diamonds of yellow and near colourless tint, highlighted with polished onyx, the eyes embellished with pear-shaped emeralds, inner circumference approximately 160mm, signed Cartier, numbered, French assay mark for gold and maker's marks.
'Silently stalking its way through Cartier iconography for one hundred years, the panther is the proud leader of the pack of precious animals that make up the famous Cartier menagerie. No other creature has achieved such iconic status at Cartier, or indeed in the entire lexicon of twentieth-century jewellery design. No other jewel is quite so indissolubly and emotively connected to the great twentieth-century women of style, to ideals of twentieth-century femininity, to the admirable Cartier legend.'
Vivienne Becker, in Cartier Panthère, Paris, 2014, pg. 68.