Prestige Singapore – July 2019

IN SIGHT

156 PRESTIGE J U LY 2019

DREAMING

OF CHINA

Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop takes a closer look at

a new Cartier exhibition in Beijing, which

reveals how Chinese culture has influenced the

French jeweller

An intricately embroidered

cheongsam dated 1932 that

belonged to Oei Hui-lan, a

Cartier client and the wife of

Chinese diplomat Wellington Koo

— on loan from the Metropolitan

Museum of Art in New York