Gold and enamel automaton watch
A rare double-sided gold enamel and pearl-set automaton pocket watch representing “Les amours forgerons”.
Now in the Patek Philippe museum.
Geneva, ca. 1790.
Diameter : 54 mm.
A rare double-sided gold enamel and pearl-set automaton pocket watch representing “Les amours forgerons”.
Now in the Patek Philippe museum.
Geneva, ca. 1790.
Diameter : 54 mm.
Gold, enamel and pearl-set pocket watch from the 18th century with a exquisitely painted miniature representing Ceres the goddess of harvest surrounded by a champlevé enamel bouquet of flowers. The white enamel dial with diamond-set hands is signed “Antoine Des Roches”. The watch has its original protecting case.
Now in the Patek Philippe Museum, Geneva, Switzerland.
Geneva, ca. 1790.
Diameter : 60 mm.
Rare gold and enamel urn-shaped watch with visible balance.
Rare gold and enamel urn-shaped watch with visible balance. The enamel miniature representing a mother and child in a rural scene and a snake around the winding aperture.
Now in the Patek Philippe Museum, Geneva, Switzerland.
Geneva, ca. 1800.
Diameter : 54 mm.
Gold, enamel and pearl-set musical harp with watch attributed to Piguet & Capt.
Now in the Patek Philippe Museum, Geneva, Switzerland.
Geneva, ca. 1805.
Height : 82 mm.
Rare life-size marble sculpture, « La Ceinture Dorée » by Prosper d’Epinay (1836 – 1914) representing a nude standing next to a Greek amphora wearing a gilt belt. Original wooden polychrome pedestal.
Now in the Chimei Museum, Tainan City, Taiwan.
Sculpture : 176 cm high.
Base : 71 cm high.
Highly important and magnificient silver pair cased quarter repeating, hour striking musical coach pocket watch made for the turkish market.
Highly important and magnificient silver pair cased quarter repeating, hour striking musical coach pocket watch made for the turkish market. De movement signed « Jos. Martineau Senior » and case signed « C.H. » for Christopher Heckel. Hallmarked 1745/46.
The original cast of the case is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England. The original design of the case is in « The Yale center for British Art, Paul Mellon collection », USA.
Now in a private italian collection.
« Rococo Art and Design in Hogarth’s England » in the « Victoria & Albert museum », London, England. From the 16/05/1986 to 30/09/1986.
Diameter : 146 mm.
« La source » is a monumental fountain in white stone signed Alfred Courtens depicting two young girls standing in a shell gathering bunches of grapes.
« La source » is a monumental fountain in white stone signed Alfred Courtens (1889 – 1967) depicting two young girls standing in a shell gathering bunches of grapes. A ram’s head between the two girls is spitting water.
Signed and dated : Alfred Courtens 1927.
Now in the Château Pétrus, Bordeaux, France.
Link to a video where the fountain shows up at 1:01:18 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSrjzk0WJ6A
Height : 408 cm.
Width : 258 cm.
Depth : 100 cm.
Weight : 9 500 kg.
Marble sculpture by the italian artist Lorenzo Bartolini.
Marble sculpture by the italian artist Lorenzo Bartolini (1777 – 1850).
Actually exhibited in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Height : 190,5 cm.
Important renaissance astronomical clock with automaton in the form of a war-ship, signed with a pine-apple for Augsburg and the initials B.S. for Bernhard Stahel.
Important renaissance astronomical clock with automaton in the form of a war-ship, signed with a pine-apple for Augsburg and the initials B.S. for Bernhard Stahel.
Probably made for the Emperor Rodolphe II as a diplomatic present to the Sultan of Turkey.
Only three other pieces are known to exist, one in the British Museum in London, one in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and a third one in the Musée du Château d’Ecouen in France.
Late 16th century.
« Tresors d’horlogerie, le Temps et sa mesure du Moyen Age à la Renaissance » in the Palais des Papes, Avignon, France. From 30/05/1998 to 27/09/1998.
« Ces curieux navires, Trois automates de la Renaissance » in the Musée national de la Renaissance, Château d’Ecouen, France. From 23/09/1999 to 05/01/2000.
Height : 89 cm.
The Clock C by Henry Sully is one of the 12 most important early timekeepers related to the discovery of the Longitude at sea, such as the Harrison clocks.
The Clock C by Henry Sully is one of the 12 most important early timekeepers related to the discovery of the Longitude at sea, such as the Harrison clocks.
Signed : « Henry Sully à Versailles Invenit 1721 et Fecit 1724 ».
Now in The Royal Observatory Greenwich.