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Vertumnus and Pomona Huaut school enamel, circa 1700, movement by De Beaufre, London circa 1735. Very fine and rare 20 ct. gold and enamelled copper pair-cased watch. Outer: two-body, glazed on both sides, the front bezel with scrolls alternating with a posy of flowers, the back bezel with cornucopia, urns and scrolls. Inner: two-body, "bassine", the back with a very fine enamel painted on copper, showing Vertumnus and Pomona, from an engraving by Cornelis Vermeulen (1644-1708/9) after Antoine Coypel (1661-1722), the band painted with four cartouches showing countryside landscapes, the enamel inside the back painted with a fisherman beside a peaceful riverand a house amongst trees on the far bank, small pendant, gold bow (later). Gold, champlevé Roman chapters with half-hour divisions, outer minute ring with five-minute Arabic numerals in polished cartouches. Blued-steel "poker and beetle" hands. 34.4 mm ø, hinged gilt brass full plate with round baluster pillars, fusee and chain, verge escapement, plain four-arm brass balance, double-footed cock pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage, pierced and engraved silver bracket for fuseestop lever.Signed on the movement.Diam. 42.4 mm, 48 mm with outer case. Published in the Sandberg book, page 104-105. Notes Previously in the Lord Sandberg Collection, sold in Geneva, March 31, 2001, lot 10.For a note, see lot 21.


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Date:
2002-11-16

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