27,600 CHF
Castel a Bourg (en Bresse), France, circa 1710. Very fine gilt brass and enamel watch. Double body, bassine with split bezel and loosering pendant, the bezel engraved with foliage decoration, the back enamelled with a fine scene depicting Amphitrite, surrounded by Tritons and Nereides, and drawn by dolphins, the band with four gold framed vignettes with houses in lake-side landscapes (slightly restored), the interior painted with a rural scene in which a traveller walks along the banks of a river, towards a bridge leading to a castle. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Blued steel "poker and beetle " hands. Hinged gilt brass full plate with turned baluster pillars, fusee with chain, plain brass threearm balance, short flat balance spring, gilt brass Louis XIV cock. Signed on the back plate, also fully engraved with foliage. hn very good condition. Diam. 49 mm. Notes Castel, born in Cologne, recorded in Ai mans in 1692, in 1718 he took over the business of Maillet in Bourg, having made clocks for the town of Bourg as early as 1708. Died in 1727 and succeeded by his two sons who Founded a watchmaking school and received the Royal Warrant. The ITuaud dynasty were undoubtedly the most prolific enamellers of the 17/18th century Geneva school, and it seems likely that they employed in their workshops, or as ounvorkers, a fair number of the other enamel painters recorded in town records as working in the period. I-Iowever, there are small groups o Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1997-04-12
