Antique Cartier seed pearl encrusted compact/necessaire, oh la la

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I collect vintage compacts and I also love looking at amazing jeweled ones from the past. This image turned up today on a collectors page that I follow. I don’t see many pearl-encrusted compacts, likely due to the fact that frequent handling would certainly damage pearls.

Then today I saw this. AH-mazing. It’s a Cartier seed pearl encrusted necessaire. I would love to see the inside—I will have to Google to find another photo.

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I hope you enjoy looking. If I find more photos of it, I’ll post more. Maybe I’ll start a thread somewhere about compacts with pearls if you all would like it.

Have a great day, everyone, and stay safe.

Cece
 
Wowza! Amazing. I'm trying to figure out the pearl stripes. Are those pearls slightly bigger?
 
That is phenomenal!!! Such intricate work & a beautiful piece. Would love to see more like this if you have them. I wish I could remember the video I watched a couple of weeks ago that was about pearls.....it had a pearl encrusted pocket watch.
 
Lovely!!! Any info on the pearl size? Seems like 3 mm on average?
 
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