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18K YELLOW GOLD AND ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASE, Alfred Langlois
ca. 1930; the cover displaying an ornate peacock design in raised blue and green enamel with intricate goldwork; the sides decorated with black, blue, and green enamel with concealed latch button; with maker's mark and French eagle head gold marks; 55.49 dwts.; 3 x 3 5/8 x 3/8 in.

Other Notes: Alfred Langlois was among Van Cleef & Arpels most talented boîtiers, or box makers. Beginning in 1927, Langlois produced "highly sophisticated enamel decoration in Chinese taste and...Persian carpet-like design, along with a nécessaire of more abstract Deco design with carpet-like rectangles and diamond ice pyramids, predominantly in enamel". (Coffin, Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels, p. 24).

An almost identical cigarette case by Van Cleef & Arpels was exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in 2011 in conjunction with the publication of Coffin's book Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels. The original drawing for that case exists in the Van Cleef & Arpels archives and is reproduced as image 6 in this catalogue.


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