Jennifer Tonkin
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Lot 19
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY ROCK CRYSTAL FRENCH BULLDOG, ATTRIBUTED TO CARTIER
12 November 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY ROCK CRYSTAL FRENCH BULLDOG, ATTRIBUTED TO CARTIER
The realistically modelled rock crystal French bulldog, wearing a gold collar with a pearl drop, the eyes set with rose-cut peridot, pearl untested, measurements 6.5cm x 8.9cm
Footnotes
In the early 20th century Cartier began producing small objets d'art in the Russian style, including a menagerie of animals such as birds, pigs and dogs. These were initially produced by the Moscow lapidaries Svietchnikov and Karl Woerffel as well as French workshops who had quickly adopted the Russian style, many of whom also supplied similar objects to Fabergé. "In view of their stylistic similarity and the absence of any signature, it is often only the signed and individually lined cases which give any information about the firm which sold them." (Nadelhoffer, 2007).
For a similar example attributed to Cartier, see the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection, object number 47.20.242 and Cartier 1900-1939, Judy Rudoe, British Museum Press, 1997, p. 114, plate 52.
Reference: Nadelhoffer, H. 'Cartier', Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 2007.
