This mix-and-match botanic style originated in India and will long be part of the jeweler's chronicle, before entering the museum world through the front door.
The "Agra" necklace, currently being made in the Cartier workshop.
© Harald Gottschalk
One day at the Hôtel Drouot (2004), an unassuming rock crystal bowl of fruit set with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and amethysts, dating from 1910-1915, was knocked down for €12,200. Fresh, colorful and vibrant, it foreshadows the tropical wave that was to be the heyday of jewelry from the 1925s onwards. This exotic wave would be later nicknamed "tutti frutti." Omnipresent in the early part of the 20th century, white-dominated Art Deco with its ultra-radical graphics certainly needed a break. This technicolor exit from the motorway began with a small brigade of jewelers: Arnold Ostertag, Louis Boucheron, Henri Picq and Jacques Cartier. Sporting white linen suits and boaters, they most frequently set out for India from…
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