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SWISS. A VERY FINE AND RARE FOUR-COLOUR GOLD OVAL SNUFF-BOX WITH WATCH AND ORIGINAL FITTED SHARGREEN TRAVELLING CASE
Lot 2871

SWISS. A VERY FINE AND RARE FOUR-COLOUR GOLD OVAL SNUFF-BOX WITH WATCH AND ORIGINAL FITTED SHARGREEN TRAVELLING CASE

UNSIGNED, STAMPED PG, CIRCA 1790

Closed29 May 2013

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HKD 500,000

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SWISS. A VERY FINE AND RARE FOUR-COLOUR GOLD OVAL SNUFF-BOX WITH WATCH AND ORIGINAL FITTED SHARGREEN TRAVELLING CASE
UNSIGNED, STAMPED PG, CIRCA 1790
Keywound verge watch, chain fusée, diamond-set balance wheel visible through an aperture to the centre of the lid, white enamel dials, to the right with Roman numerals for hours and minutes, to the left for seconds, the case chased and engraved with four colours of gold running throughout, the top features two putti amidst highly decorated foliate swags, the side and bottom similarly chased and graved with cartouches featuring trophies of the hunt, unsigned, stamped PG
67 mm. wide and 29 mm. high

Specialist note

US$50,000-75,000

With fitted box.

Only three other boxes of similar style bearing the maker's mark PG are known to exist today, the present one however being the only example still retaining the original fitted shagreen presentation box.

Although the goldsmith with the maker's mark "PG" has not been identified to date, his work is of outstanding quality, comparable to the work of the renowned watchmakers and goldsmiths Isaac Daniel Piguet (1775-1841) and Henry Capt (1773-1841), located in Geneva who specialised in musical and automaton watches also for the Chinese market.

A selection of items stamped "PG" are in the collection of the celebrated Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva. A musical gold box with the same maker's mark, dated 1790-1800, can be found in the Louvre in Paris.