PAIR SIGNED CARTIER PLATINUM AND DIAMOND GEOMETRIC DESIGN EARRINGS,Marked "6165" and "3016698", circa 1930. Each earring constructed as three arched bars pave-set with 42 brilliant cut round diamonds centering three bars of bezel-set rectangular baguette diamonds. Post/clip backs - Total weight of 96 diamonds, app. 4.0-4.5 ct.; L: 7/8 in. Estimate $2,000-4,000
PROVENANCE: Estate of Alexandra McCain Morgan and Henry Sturgis Morgan, Jr., Annapolis, MD
By family descent from Catherine Frances Lovering Adams Morgan (1902–1988), daughter of Frances Lovering and Charles Francis Adams III, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Hebert Hoover, and a direct descendant of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and wife of Henry Sturgis Morgan, Sr., co-founder of Morgan Stanley and the President & Chairman of the Morgan Library & Museum.
Posts possibly added at later date to allow earrings to be worn for pierced earrings.
One post is slightly bent. Please refer to photos.
Diamonds are transitional/early modern brilliant cut.
