Lot 325
  • 325

A Louis XVI style silver-gilt and blue guilloché enamel combined clock and barometer French, by Cartier

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • height 7 in.; width 2 1/2 in.
  • 17 cm; 6 cm
the blue guilloché enamelled cylinder fitted at one end with an enamel watch face with black Arabic numerals, inscribed Cartier Paris London, and at the other end with a white enamel barometer dial also inscribed Cartier, the case flanked by laurel sprays and supported on a truncated fluted column draped with laurel swags centering at the front and back oval blue guilloché, enamel plaques, raised on a square base on leaf-cast tapered legs.

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, November 19, 1981, lot 594