Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 237

CARTIER SILVER & ENAMEL VANITY SET WITH PAINTED SCENES IN THE STYLE OF WATTEAU Cartier. Made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, silver and enamel eleven-piece travelling vanity set with clothes and hair brushes, glass powder jars, perfume bottles and comb, each set with a hand-painted watercolor scene after Jean-Antoine Watteau. Accompanied by the original black leather Cartier fitted case.

HKD 170,000 - 250,000

USD 22,000 - 32,000 / CHF 22,000 - 32,000

Sold: HKD 400,000

C. Comprising three hair brushes, two clothes brushes, comb, two circular glass powder jars, a rectangular glass box and two perfume bottles, the lids and tops of the brushes overlaid with translucent red enamel and each set with a central hand-painted pastoral scene after Watteau. Case signed Cartier. Dim. 56 x 38 x 17 cm.


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The scene depicted on the central large hair brush is taken from Jean-Antoine Watteau?s ?Embarkation of Cythera? painted in 1717 and now in the Musee du Louvre. The art movement ?Fete Galante? is associated with Watteau?s paintings depicting the change of attitude and lifestyle of French aristocrats at the time.