The First Cartier Panther Jewelry Was Ordered By The Qajar Prince

  Toussaint had bigger plans than a postcard for the animals in her kingdom and pushed her team for more figurative three-dimensional pieces. Many visits to the Paris zoo at Vincennes ensued. In 1927 designer Peter Lemarchand joined her team, ready to pounce with the technical skill to realize her vision of three-dimensional panthers.