Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 275

CARTIER VANITY SET WITH PAINTED SCENES IN THE STYLE OF WATTEAU SILVER ENAMEL Cartier, Mader 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-Antonine Watteau. Accompanied by the original black leather Cartier fitted case. In excellent condition. The scene depicted on the central large hair brush is take from Jaan-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.