Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

Centuries of Time: A Private Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1379. A gold, enamel and pearl-set hunting cased watch with associated chatelaine Circa 1820.

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A gold, enamel and pearl-set hunting cased watch with associated chatelaine Circa 1820

Auction Closed

May 14, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

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A gold, enamel and pearl-set hunting cased watch with associated chatelaine

Circa 1820


• Movement: unsigned frosted gilded, verge escapement, fusee and chain, decoratively pierced and engraved balance bridge, silver regulation plate

• Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute ring

• Case: gold, the back centred with polychrome enamel painted panel depicting a cherub's head framed by pearls and a wreath with black enamel leaves, case front with gold stippled ground and centred with gold and polychrome enamel painted lady playing a lyre, surrounded by a stylised palm heightened with pearls and blue enamel leaves, pearl-set bezels, milled band

• Chatelaine: associated gold chatelaine of green, pink and yellow gold, pearl-set shell flanked by palm leaves, two pendant chains set with pearls, the pendant hook's panel polychrome enamel painted with a young maiden pouring water from a jar by a river, pearl-set border and surmounted by a bow set with a pearl, lower panel polychrome enamel painted with a lyre and roses bordered with pearls


diameter 30.5mm, length of chatelaine 105mm

R. Chadwick, A Voyage Through Time, London: Unicorn, 2020, p. 99.