391,250 CHF
Henry Grendon at the Royal Exchange Fecit, circa 1645. Highly important 22ct.gold, enamel and diamondset pendant watch, painted by a Blois artist en grisaille on a bleu mourant ground. Gold bassine form, entirely enamelled inside and out in deep turquoise blue, the back with an exceptionally well executed scene of an Allegory of Spring «Flora and Cupido»painted in a stipple-point technique, the band with 6 oval vignettes depicting a series of ruin landscapes, seperated by cartouches of dark grey decorated with gold points (some invisible repairs to edge). Interior with an extensive landscape of trees, ruins and people, with dark band under the rim. Plain loose-ring pendant. Diamond-set gold bezel. Gold, with white enamel chapter-ring, Roman numerals and half-hour points, the centre with a simple landscape on bleu mourant ground. Single engraved and gilt tulip hand. Circular, gilt plates, fusee with gut line, early pattern pierced and engraved Egyptian pillars, short train, verge escapement with plain two-arm balance without spring, irregular oval pinned cock engraved with flowers, worm-and-wheel set-up, with blued-steel brackets and rubricated silver disk. Signed on the movement In very good condition. Diam: 52mm. Notes Note: This exceptional watch belongs to a small group decorated in various ways over a turquoise or bleu mourant ground. Five complete examples of large size and dating from circa 1650, are currently known, and it may be that they are all the work of one
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1995-10-21
