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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 16, 1997

LOT 101

Unsigned, Geneva, circa 1830. "Entre les deux mon coeur balance" Fine and rare 18K gold and enamel musical pendant with automaton scene, designed as a watch key.

C. Oval, surmounted by the figures of Venus and Adonis, seated back to back, the reverse with azure and red enamelled border, chased with foliage and centred with a bouquet of summer flowers over an azure ground. The enamel automaton scene features a landscape with a waterfall, applied with varicoloured gold figures of a boy and a girl standing on a seesaw designed as the bow of Cupid, at the base of a pedestal surmounted by a cherub playing the lyre at unison. M. Brass oval with a pin disk and two facing sets of six teeth. Dim. 54 x 32 mm.