66,700 CHF
Jesus in the House of Lazarus. James Vautrollier Fecit, London, circa 1635. Very fine and very rare silver and vermeil savonette pre-balance spring, small single-hand pendant watch. Two-body, front engraved with a scene depicting Christ in the house of Lazarus with his sister Mary anointing the feet of Jesus with oil and drying them with her hair (John, 12:2), the back with a scene of Christ in discussion with a Pharisee, the band with reclining nudes representing the four elements, tulip pendant, loose ring, small finial, gilt bezels engraved with repeated pattern. 29 mm, gilt brass pinned to the dial plate, full plate, fusee and chain, short 3-wheel train, verge escapement, circular steel foliot, irregular pinned cock pierced and engraved with floral and foliate pattern, ratchet wheel set-up work with gilt brass clock pierced and engraved en suite to the cock.Signed on the movement.Diam. 33 mm. Notes Provenance: Prince Soltykoff Collection, illustrated in his catalogue, Paris 1858, p. 96-97, and Fig. VIII. The Prince Soltykoff Collection was the most important 19th century collection. Such watches very seldom appear on the market.English watches from this period are very rare. This one, in particularly good condition and finely decorated, was chosen by F. J. Britten to exemplify the earliest English watches in his "Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers", 3rd Edition, London, 1911, p. 150. James Vautrollier. Probably a Huguenot refugee, he was recorded "without Te Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-11-16
