CARTIER - Special Order18K (750) gold dog necklace , adorned with a carved motif representing a winged sphinx, the nemesis and beard set with rose-cut diamonds and calibrated emeralds, the setting highlighted with enameled flowers and suites of stylized lotus flowers. Signed and numbered. French work of 1927. Dimensions : 15 x 1,5 cm approximately. Gross weight: 20 g (transformed and thus shortened into a bracelet, missing) A 1927 Cartier dog collar It is accompanied by an expertise of Olivier Bachet (2022) specifying that this jewel was probably originally a dog collar made on order in 1927. Europe knows in the 1920s a strong infatuation for the arts of ancient Egypt, reinforced by the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922 . The Egyptomania wins all artistic expressions and particularly those of the jewel. This trend gave rise to extraordinary creations. The House of Cartier, with its extensive collection of Egyptian objects and its meticulous study of the iconographic syntax of these pieces, created some highly original jewelry during this decade. Ancient scarabs mounted in brooches, blue earthenware divinities set on clips...Cartier uses its aesthetic and technical vocabulary to make these thousand-year-old objects speak and reveal their eternal side. The color combinations of stones such as carnelian with lapis lazuli, or turquoise, the reference to Egyptian monuments such as the pylon, the representation of the Nilotic flora (lotus, papyrus ...) are all references that Louis Cartier uses to express his "Egyptian style". The jewel we are presenting today, dated 1927, is a unique example of this production, both in terms of the theme treated (the sphinx), the iconographic vocabulary (lotus flowers) and the chromatic contrasts (blue/black, turquoise/gold)