10,925 CHF
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well LeRoy, Paris, enamel by Guillaume Bouvier, repoussé attributed to David Cochin, circa 1760. A rare and important 20K repoussé gold and enamel watch. Green enamel imitating hardstone with applied scene in repoussé gold depicting the scene of Eliezer giving presents to Rebecca, a camel to the right, the well to the left, yellow counter-enamel. White enamel, Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions with fifteen-minute Arabic markers, winding aperture at 3 o’clock. Gold "beetle and poker" hands. 38 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with pentagonal baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement brass balance with flat balance spring, micrometric potence adjustment, continental cock.Signed on the movement, enamel artist signed on the case. Diam. 49 mm. Notes Provenance: Bloch-Pimentel Collection. A very interesting watch from the decorative point of view. Bouvier, active circa 1740-1760 specialized in enamel cases made to resemble other materials, such as porcelain or hardstone, and bearing a repoussé gold decoration forming a stunning composition. A case by him (housing a Thomas Gardner movement) with enamel resembling porcelain and decorated with Pallas Athena, is in the Louvre Museum; another, with a Julien Le Roy movement, was in the Jubinal de Saint-Albin Collection. An identical case to this one, housing a Julien Le Roy movement, is in the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris (inv. 646). All his cases show the same style and the finish of
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-04-24
