149,250 CHF
“The Music of Love” Attributable to Piguet & Capt, Geneva, No. 1443 for the Chinese Market, circa 1810. Very fine and rare 18K gold and enamel, pearl-set musical snuffbox with automaton scene and built-in centre-seconds watch. To be sold without reserve. Three-body, decorated overall with blue guilloché enamel, the borders with engraved foliage decoration over a green champlevé ground, hinged cover with split-pearl set bezel, disclosing the automaton scene, featuring a couple of four-coloured gold musicians, playing the lyre and the harp, applied on each side of the dial over a finely painted enamel palace interior. Hinged base panel. White enamel with Roman numerals and outer minute and seconds ring. Blued steel Breguet hands. Brass rectngular, the going train with free standing barrel, cylinder escapement, plain brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring. Pin disc musical train with 21 tuned teeth, driving the automaton movements by means of cams and levers. Dim. 80 x 45 x 20 mm. Notes The present lot was previously sold by Antiquorum Geneva on April 2, 2000, lot 407 Charles-Abraham Bruguier senior (1788-1862) Born on January 5, 1788, in Geneva, he was the son of a clockmaker and became a clockmaker himself. In 1815, Charles-Abraham Bruguier took his family to London, where they lived for several years. Two other children were born in London: Charles-Abraham in 1818, and Louise in 1821. The Bruguier family returned to Switzerland around 1823. Judith, their fourth ch
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-10-16
