400,000 HKD
Transience - The Earliest Known Painted on Enamel German Watch Probably Augsburg. Made circa 1670. Extremely fine and important, “memento mori” gold and painted on enamel, pre-balance spring, single-hand pendant watch, the enamel paintings copied from engravings by Otto van Veen from “Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata”, third edition, 1612. Two-body, bassine, polychrome painted on enamel on gold, the cover painted with a scene of a man being led away from his family by death, banner “Morte Linqunda Omnia” (through death you must leave everything), the interior of the cover painted with a bare-breasted young woman representing consolation and admonition, standing on a globe, her hands held by two hands issuing from the clouds, in the background a castle on the coast and the motto “Alles Alles Nach Gottes Willen” (all by the will of God), the band decorated with maritime and hunting scenes, the back painted with a scene of Damocles at the feast of Dionysios and banner “Mortis Formido” (fear of death), the interior of the case body with a very finely painted monochrome turquoise portrait of the naked Venus in the mannerist style, a formal garden in the background. Fire-gilded, finely engraved border with flowers and foliage, the center engraved with a castle in a river landscape, applied silver chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, half-hour divisions. Blued steel single tulip hand. Matte gilt full plate, fluted vase pillars, fusee with gut-line, verge escapement, steel fol
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-06-25
