Tiara Cartier - 1909
Necklace Cartier - 1909
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Tudor Rose Brooch
"After her death in 1904, Princess Mathilde's jewels were auctioned at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris - the same fate as the French Crown jewels several years earlier. The sale catalogue mentions "a corsage spray in the form of a fully open rose and two rose buds, with eleven leaves set entirely in very fine Brazilian brilliants". This is the stunning brooch, created by the Parisian jeweler Theodore Fester in 1855, and now known as the Tudor Rose.
The jewel was bought by the famous French Art Deco jeweler Janesich and subsequently sold by Cartier to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the "Queen of New York society". As the wife of one of America's wealthiest "robber barons", Mrs. Vanderbilt amassed a jewelry collection of great importance. The Vanderbilts were among the most influential of the new American aristocracy and Cartier furnished the family dynasty with European crown jewels as well as spectacular custom pieces.
In 1972, the Tudor Rose again passed hands and was sold by Christie's Geneva to a private collector, later to Fred Leighton."
In 2004, to Lee Siegelson.
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