Highlighting the Cartier Tiger Clip-Brooch
(Est. HK$1.2 – 1.6 million / US$150,000 –
200,000)
Exhibition: 21 - 26 November | Auction:
2:30pm, 27 November
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery
Following
last December’s success, Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Jewels and Jadeite sale this
year will take place on 27 November 2014 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery,
featuring an array of coloured and colourless diamonds, gemstones, and
beautiful signed jewels highlighted by the iconic Cartier “Tiger” brooch. The
sale will also include a charity session featuring 11 lots of whimsical jewels
and watches to benefit Operation Smile China Medical Mission#, a charity that
provides free surgery to underprivileged children and young adults with cleft
lips or palates in China. Including the charity session, the entire sale will
offer a total of 180 lots with a total estimate in excess of HK$58 million /
US$7.5 million.
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Chin Yeow, Deputy Chairman, Asia and Chairman, International Jewellery, Asia,
says, “Following the success of the inaugural Fine Jewels and Jadeite sale last
year, this November Sotheby’s is delighted to present another fun and exciting
sale comprising a fine collection of coloured gemstones, diamonds and signature
examples of signed jewels from the major jewellery houses. In honour of the
charitable spirit of the festive season to come, Sotheby’s is once again
pleased to feature a charity session to benefit Operation Smile China Medical
Mission, which has changed over 26,000 smiles and lives by providing free
surgery to underprivileged children with cleft lips or palate in China. By
offering an excellent opportunity to acquire jewellery for the festive season
we also invite our clients to join us in contributing to the transformation of
these children’s lives and be their reason to smile.”
Highlights of the sale:
A Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Onyx and Emerald
“Tiger” Clip-Brooch, Cartier
Est. HK$1.2 – 1.6 million/US$150,000 –
200,000
Inspired
by the brand’s director of haute joaillerie Jeanne Toussaint, Cartier’s
portrayal of the tiger is a timeless classic, highly sought after by style
icons and jewellery collectors, in particular Barbara Hutton - Woolworth
heiress, renowned jewellery collector and original owner of the Hutton-Mdivani
Jadeite Necklace which sold for a record-setting US$27.44 million at Sotheby’s
Hong Kong in April 2014. One of the jeweller’s most loyal patrons, Hutton
favoured the tiger over the iconic panther, and in 1957 commissioned Cartier to
create a three-dimensional “Tiger” clip brooch set in yellow diamonds, striped
with onyx, and a pair of earrings to match, which has become a celebrated motif
from Cartier’s exquisite “Great Cat Jewels”.
The
craftsmanship of this “Tiger” clip brooch, a later version similar to the
famous example commissioned by Barbara Hutton, is likewise close to perfection,
with piercing emerald eyes and legs and tail articulated to move with the body
resting in a composed curl.
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