Object Details
- Producer
- Cartier, French, founded 1847
- Description
- Belt buckle in the shape of a scarab with outstretched wings; the insect’s blue Egyptian faience body is accented by incised linework and accented by diamonds and cabochon sapphires and wrapped by a layer of black enamel. Base of gold and platinum.
- Credit Line
- Lent by Cartier Collection, Inv. CL 341 A26
- 1926
- Accession Number
- 86.2016.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- jewelry
- Exhibitions
- Scarab Belt Buckle
- Medium
- Square-shaped diamonds, baguette-, brilliant-, round old- and single-cut diamonds, blue Egyptian faience, cabochon sapphires, black enamel, gold, platinum
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 3.8 × 12.8 × 2.1 cm (1 1/2 × 5 1/16 × 13/16 in.)
- produced in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Exhibitions Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_86.2016.3
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49ee26aed-7eea-4346-99c0-143c966aa816
