Only Online Auction
Geneva, Dec 08, 2022
LOT 152
MELEAGER AND ATALANTA, JACOBUS GARNAULT, 22K GOLS WITH ENAMEL SIGNED BY LES FRERES HUAUT.
CHF 15,000 - 25,000
EUR 15,300 - 25,400 / USD 15,900 - 26,500 / HKD 126,000 - 208,000
Sold: CHF 20,000
Magnificent and rare 22K gold and enamel, single-hand pendant watch. Case in 'bassine' shape with curved-in edges, entirely painted on enamel, the main scene on the back, depicting Meleager and Atalanta, taken from an engraving by Cornelis Bloemaert after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1641). Meleager, the King of Calydon's son, presents Atalanta, the virgin huntress, with a boar's head after the Calydonian boar hunt. The band decorated with four vignettes each depicting a different house situated close to a lake or a river, linked by a yellow ribbon. The eamel inside the back with a fisherman in a lakescape, later gold pendant and bow.
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Grade: |
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Case: 3-8-24 |
Good Slightly scratched Slightly chipped |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Jacobus
Year Circa 1688
Material 22K gold
Diameter 41 mm.
Caliber 33.5 mm o, hinged, gilt brass full plate, pierced tulip pillars, fusee and chain for the going train, verge escapement with short balance spring, double-footed early trefoil cock pierced and engraved, worm and wheel set-up, rack and piion regulator with silver plate.
Signature Signed on the movement, case signed Les Frères Huaut.
Notes
A watch with the same painted enamel scene, signed 'freres Huaut pinx. invt', but with an updated movement by James Leroux, is in the collection of the Dresden Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salon, inv. D IV a 293.Garnault Jacobusis listed as having been active in Hague arround 1690.
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