Sold for:
6,900 CHF
6,900 CHF
Unsigned, Austrian, circa 1860. Fine silver and enamel oval snuff box with built-in automaton watch. Double body, oval, fully decorated, the red translucent enamel ground with a spray of paillonne gold stars, the band with eight small landscape in cartouches.The cover with a fine automaton painted scene centred with the watch, depicting two gentlemen in a boudoir, conversing with a lady at the spinning-wheel, outer four small portraits. The back with a painted pastoral scene depicting a courting couple in a landscape with outer four small portraits. Small white enamel with Arabic numerals. Blued steel hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1996-04-20
