A SUPERB ART DECO MOTHER-OF-PEARL, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND VANITY CASE The red and black enamel rectangular exterior, the front and reverse decorated with two mother-of-pearl and hardstone mosaics of Makovsky depicting dragon scenes, with pavé-set diamond and diamond collet details, baguette-cut diamond thumb-piece, the interior with fitted mirror, two powder and lipstick compartment, circa 1925, gross weight 232 grams (including mirror), in a green leather case, (lipstick deficient) Signed by Cartier, Paris, Londres, New York, no. 01129 and 01050 The plaques decorating this vanity case are the work of Wladimir Makovsky (1881-1966), son of a family of Russian painters, who during the Art Deco period was active in France. His miniature scenes are based on Chinese lacquer, hardstone and mother-of-pearl inlays of the 18th and 19th centuries, Islamic friezes and miniatures. His fairy-tale world also includes European narrative genre-scenes. His work was commissioned by French jewellers in the 1920's; several pieces in Cartier's production can be safely attributed to him. Makovsky's signature is an ornamented or Vemac (his initials), but his work is often unsigned. The present case bears his signature on the front mosaic
A SUPERB ART DECO MOTHER-OF-PEARL, ENAMEL AND DIAMOND VANITY CASE The red and black enamel rectangular exterior, the front and reverse decorated with two mother-of-pearl and hardstone mosaics of Makovsky depicting dragon scenes, with pavé-set diamond and diamond collet details, baguette-cut diamond thumb-piece, the interior with fitted mirror, two powder and lipstick compartment, circa 1925, gross weight 232 grams (including mirror), in a green leather case, (lipstick deficient) Signed by Cartier, Paris, Londres, New York, no. 01129 and 01050 The plaques decorating this vanity case are the work of Wladimir Makovsky (1881-1966), son of a family of Russian painters, who during the Art Deco period was active in France. His miniature scenes are based on Chinese lacquer, hardstone and mother-of-pearl inlays of the 18th and 19th centuries, Islamic friezes and miniatures. His fairy-tale world also includes European narrative genre-scenes. His work was commissioned by French jewellers in the 1920's; several pieces in Cartier's production can be safely attributed to him. Makovsky's signature is an ornamented or Vemac (his initials), but his work is often unsigned. The present case bears his signature on the front mosaic
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