FOURTH QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

细节

A Viennese silver gilt and enamel monstrance watch
Fourth quarter 19th Century
The central figure of a silver gilt mother holding two children and clothed in translucent enamel garments supported on a convex base decorated with red guilloché enamel and three pastoral scenes on a crenellated and engraved base with three ball feet, the globe above enamelled with similar guilloché and painted with further pastoral scenes, the lid surmounted by a cockerel decorated with polychrome enamels, the lid detaching to reveal a watch dial enamelled with cloud-borne Jupiter and Cupid within an Arabic chapter ring and blued moon hands, the gilt movement with bridgecock verge escapement
5in. (13 cm.) high

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased Parke Bernet Galleries, 26 October, 1956, N.Y.C., sale of items from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, INV. 432/170