Brooch

This style of brooch, made up of two separate decorative elements joined by a pin, was very fashionable in the mid 1920s. At the time Cartier referred to them as cliquet pins on account of the click or snap fastening which held the lower element in place over the sharp point of the pin, but they are also variously referred to as jabot pins (after a cravat or jabot) or sûreté pins. In the 1920s they were worn on the lapel or at the front of a cloche hat. Most of those made in New York were of the length of this example and were made to be worn on the hat.

Brooch · New York · 1920-1930. Platinum, lapis lazuli, diamonds and black onyx. By Cartier. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.