Category: Slow Clap Jewels

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Just because I’m in a Cartier art deco love period…

…but then when am I not.

This might be the most perfect piece of jewelry I have ever seen. Drapery brooch in platinum, gold, diamonds, sapphires, 1912, Cartier. Belongs to the Cartier Collection. Photo: Cartier
Ring with black lacquer and diamonds, circa 1935.

1) Art déco watch with a single-cut diamond border and cabochon sapphire dial with old and single-cut diamonds mounted in platinum, circa 1930. 2) Opal and diamond brooch set in platinum, circa 1930. 

Platinum, gold, black opal, diamond and onyx brooch, circa 1920.

All jewelry Cartier. All photos Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

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