Brooch
1913 (made)
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| Place of origin |
This diamond and stained chalcedony brooch shows a geometric design. According to its donor, Lady Reigate, it was bought by her father, W. Redmond Cross of New York City, for his wife at Cartier, New York, Christmas 1913, the year of his marriage to Julia Newbold. However, there is no record to confirm the Cartier connection in the archives of the firm.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Diamonds and stained chalcedony mounted in platinum |
| Brief description | Brooch of platinum set with brilliant-cut diamonds and stained chalcedony, possibly by Cartier, Paris, 1913 |
| Physical description | Brooch of brilliant-cut diamonds and stained chalcedony set in platinum |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Engraved diamond shape (formed of two right-angles placed one above another) in front of the numbers 89 (Not a known sequence or style of inscription for a piece by Cartier) |
| Credit line | Given by Lady Reigate |
| Object history | Lady Reigate generously donated the brooch in 1976 with the information that it had been 'made by Cartier' and bought at Cartier, New York, at Christmas 1913, a present from her father to he mother. Her father was William Redmond Cross (1874-1940), who married Julia Newbold in 1913. Lady Reigate was born in about 1914 since she was aged 92 when she died on 30 April 2006. The brooch is in the style of Cartier of the period, but research in the Cartier archives, kindly conducted by Violette Petit and her colleagues in Paris, New York and London, has not revealed any record of the brooch amongst buyers' names or in the photographic archive or in the registers. |
| Summary | This diamond and stained chalcedony brooch shows a geometric design. According to its donor, Lady Reigate, it was bought by her father, W. Redmond Cross of New York City, for his wife at Cartier, New York, Christmas 1913, the year of his marriage to Julia Newbold. However, there is no record to confirm the Cartier connection in the archives of the firm. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.212-1976 |
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| Record created | December 7, 2002 |
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