FOURTH QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A Viennese silver gilt and enamel monstrance watch
Fourth quarter 19th Century
The central figure of a silver gilt mother holding two children and clothed in translucent enamel garments supported on a convex base decorated with red guilloché enamel and three pastoral scenes on a crenellated and engraved base with three ball feet, the globe above enamelled with similar guilloché and painted with further pastoral scenes, the lid surmounted by a cockerel decorated with polychrome enamels, the lid detaching to reveal a watch dial enamelled with cloud-borne Jupiter and Cupid within an Arabic chapter ring and blued moon hands, the gilt movement with bridgecock verge escapement
5in. (13 cm.) high

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased Parke Bernet Galleries, 26 October, 1956, N.Y.C., sale of items from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, INV. 432/170

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