18ct yellow gold brooch designed as two birds perched on a branch one with a ruby eye and one an emerald eye and each with a diamond set crest Cartier Paris circa 1960s
18ct yellow gold and platinum signed Cartier Paris and numbered 016693 with French maker's and assay marks
Dimensions
35mm x 35mm
Condition Report
Light scratching as commensurate with age and wear, otherwise, very good.
Literature
See 'Amazing Cartier: Jewelry design sine 1937' by Nadine Coleno which has a whole section devoted to Cartier's 'Winged Animals' pp.28 – 44 with some very similar designs from the 1960's