“Rose” clip brooch, 1938

 

“Rose” clip brooch, 1938
Cartier collection

“Rose” clip brooch, 1938
Cartier collection

A truly three-dimensional sculpture, this piece displays exceptional virtuosity, combining old-, baguette- and single-cut round diamonds. It is one of the most eloquent illustrations from a time where Cartier, at the end of the 1930s, combined sparkling white architecture with a revival of refined naturalism - knowing how to allow itself a certain poetic distance from realism.