98th Auction
2018/11/10
Lot 393
Théodore Avril à Paris, Movement No. 2878, 51 mm, 108 g, circa 1770
A remarkable gold and porcelain verge pocket watch with rare "Camaieu" painting
Case: gold and porcelain. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance.
This rare pocket watch is made of gold-set white porcelain and painted with an exquisite monochrome crimson scene: in a classical landscape a winged putto teases a putto who sleeps on the ground; another putto next to them is working on a log. Outside and inside bezel and the inside of the back are also decorated with crimson floral motifs.
Théodore Avril was royal watch and clock maker and responsible for the clocks and watches of the Fontainbleu castle, during the regency of Louis XV.
Provenance:
- Dr. Bodo Slingenberg, Collection, sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 29 March 2001, lot 343.
- Dr. Crott Auctioneers, 19 May 2007, lot 430
- Swiss private collection
A remarkable gold and porcelain verge pocket watch with rare "Camaieu" painting
Case: gold and porcelain. Dial: enamel. Movm.: full plate movement, chain/fusee, three-arm brass balance.
This rare pocket watch is made of gold-set white porcelain and painted with an exquisite monochrome crimson scene: in a classical landscape a winged putto teases a putto who sleeps on the ground; another putto next to them is working on a log. Outside and inside bezel and the inside of the back are also decorated with crimson floral motifs.
Théodore Avril was royal watch and clock maker and responsible for the clocks and watches of the Fontainbleu castle, during the regency of Louis XV.
Provenance:
- Dr. Bodo Slingenberg, Collection, sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 29 March 2001, lot 343.
- Dr. Crott Auctioneers, 19 May 2007, lot 430
- Swiss private collection
Sold
estimated
6.000—9.000 €
Price realized
5.100 €