Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, May 10, 2020

LOT 138

Attributable to the Workshop of Jean (V) Mussard - Fragment of a watch case-back; enamel

HKD 20,000 - 25,000

USD 2,600 - 3,300 / EUR 2,400 - 3,000 / CHF 2,600 - 3,300

Enamel, round-shaped, fragment of a watch “oignon”-type case-back. Polychrome painting on enamel on copper attributable to the Workshop of Jean (V) Mussard (1681-1754), Geneva, showing the “Roman Charity”, after Simon Vouet (1590-1649). The counter-enamel with a scene painted in polychrome showing a landscape.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good

Brand Unsigned, Geneva

Year circa 1710-1720

Material enamel

Diameter 48 mm.

Thickness 13 mm.

Notes

This enamel is attributable to the Workshop of Jean (V) Mussard (1681-1754), Geneva.

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RomanCharity
Roman Charity (Caritas romana in Latin; Carità Romana in Italian) is the exemplary story of a woman, Pero, who secretly breastfeeds her father, Cimon, after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many European artists depicted the scene.