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Christmas, 1926 Baron James de Rothschild had a small dinner party for 34 at his grand home of Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. There, each guest was given a unique Cartier vase with a single paper rose and this poem attached.

The Magic Barometer Flower
This little flower you must grant
is something of a sensitive plant.
Place it in the open air,
I'is pink when stormy, blue when fair,
and turns a lovely lilac hue,
when undecided which t'ill do.

One of the vases given that night was this one with chinoiserie mother-of-pearl inlay, lacquer and 18kt gold.

Cartier . . . . .$75,000

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