57,500 CHF
MAGNIFICENT SILVER-GILT & ENAMEL MYSTERY TABLE CLOCK - `LAC DES CYGNES` H. Arnold & Steinwachs, Genève. Made circa 1920. Exceptionally fine and probably unique, large silver-gilt, marble, painted on enamel, ivory and lapis-lazuli, 8-day going mystery table clock with two 12-hour dials and four swans as hour and minute indicators with 24-hour rotation. Accompanied by a wooden base and glass shade. Drum-form base with scallop-edged silver-gilt rim, the side very finely painted on enamel with the signs of the zodiac en grisaille on a midnight blue ground painted with gold clouds, silver-gilt chased laurel wreath winding bow, the upper section with translucent and painted on enamel ring decorated as a lilypond, gazebo in the center, the circular base decorated with royal blue enamel, octagonal cupola roof overlaid with translucent midnight-blue enamel painted en grisaille with four flower and fuit vignettes representing the four seasons, gold highlights and lapis-lazuli finial, supported by seven fluted silver-gilt columns with loti-form capitals, within the gazebo in a translucent blue enameled arched niche a very finely carved ivory sculptural group of Cupid and Bacchante, eight tapered fluted columns supporting the clock, octagonal marble base witHEIGHT fluted cylindrical feet. Annular around the base of the gazebo painted on enamel with clouds, gilt-edged blue Arabic numerals 1-12 twice, minute numerals below. Two finely carved ivory swans as hour indicators each making on
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-11-10
