Important paintings, furniture, and objets d'art, including Jeanne Toussaint's Grue Couronnée (Crowned Crane)

JEANNE TOUSSAINT'S CROWNED CRANE

19TH CENTURY CHINA, MODIFIED FOR JEANNE TOUSSAINT AROUND 1942
JEANNE TOUSSAINT'S CROWNED CRANE

Gilded bronze and cloisonné enamel crane, transformed into a "watch" for
Jeanne Toussaint, the dial signed Cartier

Case: depicted standing, neck turned backwards along its left flank,
feathers finely drawn and enamelled in white and black, bronze legs
resting on its four webbed claws

Dial: patinated and silvered from the Art Deco period in the shape of an egg, stick hour markers
and stylised hands, signed "Cartier"

Movement: mechanical with manual winding, anchor escapement,
spiral balance, unsigned French work

H. 31 cm. L. 25 cm

Originally, this crane, along with two others, formed the three
supports for a perfume burner, a transformation that was probably
carried out by the Cartier workshops under the direction of its designer
Jeanne Toussaint.

Provenance: Collection of Madame Jeanne Toussaint, then by succession

Experts: Alice Jossaume (Cabinet Portier) and Geoffroy Ader (AderWatches)
Enamel restoration

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