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The Furama Hotel Hong Kong, Victoriana Room, Jun 05, 2000

LOT 501

Attributable to François Nicole, Geneva, circa 1810.Very fine and rare 18K gold and enamel, diamond-set harp with music.

HKD 128,000 - 160,000

USD 16,000 - 20,000

C. Finely painted composition of flowers on the back of the enamelled main sound chest, blue flinqué enamelled side panels with white enamel border and centred with finely chased quivers within navette split-pearl set frames, engraved and enamel main post, capped by pearl set decoration, with wire-wound gold strings and diamond set end caps. M. Brass tapered full plate with cylindrical pillars, concealed in the sound chest, playing at will with pinned barrel and seven stacked steel tuned teeth.Dim. 74 x 44 mm.


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Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3 - 17
Movement: * 4

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An almost identical harp, carrying the signature of François Nicole, was sold by Antiquorum on November 13, 1999 in The Art of Horology in Geneva, lot 79.In the period this harp was made, François Nicole, Henry Capt and Piguet & Meylan were producing such types of musical objects of vertu in Geneva. This musical movement with pin-barrel and stacked steel tuned teeth could also have been made by Henry Capt.