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LOT 541

La Musique Edelynne à Paris, No. 248, circa 1760. Very fine 18K gold and painted on enamel, diamond-set, à toc, quarter-repeating watch.

CHF 4,500 - 6,500

EUR 2,800 - 4,100 / USD 3,500 - 5,100

Sold: CHF 21,850

C. Two-body, Louis XV, by master casemaker Horace-BenedictPasteur, back finely painted on enamel with ascene depicting three children playing the harpsichord, violinand cello, after Carle Van Loo (1705-1765), bezels in opaque blueenamel simulating lapis lazuli, the edge of the front bezel, bow, pendant and thumb pieces diamond-set.D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic markers, winding aper-tureat 2 o?clock. Diamond-set "Louis XV" hands.M. 38 mm, hinged, frosted gilt full-plate with cylindrical pillars,fusee and chain, verge escapement brass balance with flat balance spring, continental cock, repeating on goldblocks in the case by depressing the pendant. Signed on the movement.Diam. 46 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3 - 41
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2 - 12 - 01

Notes

This scene, quite popular at the time, was taken from an engraving by Etienne Fessard after Carle Van Loo?s (1705- 1765) painting entitled "La Musique", which was part of a series of allegories on the Arts done for Madame de Pom-padour. An almost identical case with a movement by Pierre II LeRoy is in the Louvre Museum (inv. OA 8345), another with a Caron movement was in the Jubinal de Saint-Albin Collection, and one by Baillon is in the Paul Dupuy Museum in Toulouse (inv. 18.258). Pierre Edelyne ou Edelinne. Paris. Born in 1727. App. 1747-54. Married in 1754. Rue de Harlay, 1765-67. Belonged to the loge "Le Bon Zèle", 1748 and to that of the "Frères Initiés", 1776. His signature was: Edelynne à Paris. Horace-Benedict Pasteur (died before 1772) Was received as a master casemaker on January 21, 1751. He settled in 1749 at Enclos de l?Abbaye in Saint-Germain-des- Prés. A year later, he moved to the Rue Saint-Louis au Palais. Pasteur supplied cases to Pierre II Le Roy, Edelynne, and the jeweler P. Delavigne.