LE ROY. AN 18 carat GOLD, ENAMEL AND GEM-SET QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH, SIGNED ENAMEL BY LIOT

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LE ROY. AN 18 carat GOLD, ENAMEL AND GEM-SET QUARTER REPEATING VERGE WATCH, SIGNED ENAMEL BY LIOT
signed Julien Le Roy à Paris, No. 3382, 1757-1758

with gilt finished verge movement, pierced and chased decorative cock, turned baluster pillars, chain fusee, two steel hammers striking the quarters, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals, Arabic five minute divisions, diamond-set hands, the bezel inscribed "Invente par Jul. Le Roy en 1740 et Le Roüage en 1755", the border of the case set with diamonds, sapphires and emeralds, the reverse with a finely painted enamel scene of three young children and their dog in a wooded landscape, surrounded by scroll decoration with blue and green translucent enamel, five piece hinge, diamond-set catch, quarter repeating through the pendant, dial and movement signed, enamel signed - 44 mm diam.

Lot Essay

Henri Clouzot (Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail, Paris, 1924, p. 130) quotes the Almanach des Beaux-Arts for 1754 where Liot is mentioned as one of the best Parisian enamellers, who worked almost exclusively for goldsmiths. Liot's workshop was situated opposite the Saint-Merry church.
A gold snuff-box by Jean Ducrollay of 1753-1754 enamelled by Liot is illustrated in Serge Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, nr. 98 (as Liot's only work hitherto recorded).
The case is marked with the Paris date-mark for 1757-1758, with the charge and discharge marks of the sous-fermier Eloy Brichard.

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