CARTIER - YEARS 1927-28 LARGE IVORY CHAMPAGNE... Lot 36

CARTIER - YEARS 1927-28 LARGE IVORY CHAMPAGNE HOLDER Silver, rock crystal, metal, vermeil and twelve ivory and moonstone mousseurs. The holder rests on an octagonal silver base with metal bottom. Base and support plate in crenellated silver with eight small sides. Gold gadroons. Gilt molding. Carved rock crystal octagonal shaft and square socket. Engraved "metal" for the bottom trim. French work, signed CARTIER. Goldsmith's hallmark of Maurice COUET. Engraved S5 by Cartier, before 1928. Maurice Couet was one of Cartier's most important manufacturing workshops from 1911 until after the Second World War. Among other things, it was Cartier's main workshop for precious clocks. Length of foamers: approx. 12.8 cm. Stand height: 22 cm. Gross weight: 510.80 gr. Bibliography: "La Collection Cartier", Objets précieux, Chaille, Edition Flammarion, 2012, ill page 205. "L'Objet Cartier, 150 ans de tradition et d'innovation", La Bibliothèque des arts, Paris, 1992, ill. page 147 "Cartier, objets d'exception", Ed. Palais Royal, Hong Kong, 2019, O. Bachet and A. Cartier, ill. vol. 1 page 419 Catalog Sothebys Belgravia, English and foreign silver 4/04/1975, lot 40 reproduced. Dusters accompanied by a CIC, they are made of ivory, Elephantidae spp, listed in Appendix II of CITES.