365,800 HKD
"Beautiful Ladies" Attributed to Pierre Simon Gounouilhou, Geneva. Made circa 1815. Very fine and very rare, octagonal, 18K gold, champlevé and painted on enamel, rose-cut diamond-set etui, set with a watch with visible rose-cut diamond-set balance and a gold trefoil key. Tall, octagonal, the front and back central panel decorated with a finely painted on enamel oval portraits of young ladies with flowers in their hair and in landscapes, one seated on a chair, the other clasping an urn, red guilloché enamel borders decorated with flower swags, the corners with light-blue champlevé enamel and engraved gold foliage, the sides overlaid with royal blue enamel over black diamond pattern engine-turning, the hinged lid decorated with royal blue, light-blue and white champlevé enamel, the interior with apertures for winding, hand-setting and regulation, the top glazed to view the watch, thumb-piece set with a large rose-cut diamond, gold suspension chain. Small white enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, royal blue translucent enamel border with engraved flowers, aperture for the visible rose-cut diamond-set balance with white enamel leaf border. Blued steel "pear" hands. 23 x 14 mm., octagonal brass plates, fixed going barrel, cylinder escapement, five-spoke rose-cut diamond-set gold balance, flat balance spring, regulation via an arbour. Dim. 77 x 32 x 26 mm. Property of a Swedish Gentleman Notes Pierre-Simon Gounouilhou (1779-1847). Was born in Bergerac en Do
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
