Exceptional horologic works of art

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Oct 11, 2003

LOT 72

The Muses and Jupiter. Geneva, goldsmith's mark "GGR", circa 1820. Very fine gold and enamel rectangular snuff box with canted corners, in fitted leather box.

CHF 15,000 - 20,000

EUR 9,800 - 13,000

Sold: CHF 23,000

C. Two-body, rectangular with canted corners, the lid centered with painted on enamel grisaille scene depicting Euterpe, Melpomene, Terpsichore and Clio with Jupiter against a copper colored background, hexagonal gold and black champlevé enamel frame,the background with four gold triangles with chased flowers, musical instruments, a wheat sheaf and a sickle, amphora, fruit basket and translucent imperial blue enamel over engine-turning with black edge, champlevé enamel border, side panels and the base in en suite translucent imperial blue enamel over engine-turning and champlevé borders.Punched with maker's mark ("GGB" or "GGR" surmounted by a crown inside the front lid.Dim. 95 x 67 x 17 mm.


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Provenance: S. Bulgari, Rome. Bulgari, with his keen eye and superb taste, created collections of some of the best jewelry, watches and objects of vertu in Italy.Pieces from his collection very rarely appear on the market. This, with its original Bulgari label and in a box signed Bulgari, is one of them.The workmanship in certain details is reminiscent of Jean-Georges Rémond.