CARTIER. AN ART DECO 9CT GOLD CIGARETTE CASE diagonally reeded

CARTIER. AN ART DECO 9CT GOLD CIGARETTE CASE diagonally reeded, the lid applied with arms of Paravicini in white gold , the interior engraved V R PARAVICINI ST JAMES' CLUB W1 1936, mark of Cartier Ltd, London 1936, 5ozs, 159gProvenance: Lt Col Vincent Rudolph Paravicini (1814-1989) son of the Swiss Minister to the Court of St James's 1920-40, Charles Rudolf Paravicini; he married at St Margaret's Westminster on 20 July 1936, Liza Maugham (1915-1998) daughter of the writer William Somerset Maugham, CH (1874-1965) and Syrie Wellcome (née Barnardo, subsequently Maugham, 1879-1955) the leading British interior decorator. The wedding was filmed for a Roving Camera Report by Gaumont British News and was part of a newsreel that also featured King Edward VIII's first garden party at Buckingham Palace, released to British cinemas on 23 July 1936.Syrie Maugham's stylish interiors of the newlywed's Belgravia house were as opulent as they were modern and rank amongst her most important creations. The Paravicinis were divorced in 1948.