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in the form of two lovebirds carved from richly coloured carnelian with brilliant-cut diamond eyes, each bird perched on a stem of a forking branch, one looking ahead, the other seen in profile.
Signed ‘Cartier’, circa 1950.
Numbered: k5585
4.6 cm across.
Illustrated:
No.233 (pg 219) ‘From Function to Fantasy, The Brooch: From 1200 BCE to the Contemporary’ (London, 2025).