French 18K gold Renaissance revival style watch Circa 1883
- Kenmerk
- SB0364
- Diameter
- 31 mm
- Estimate
- € 14.000 - 24.000
- Price sold
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Unique gold and silver cylinder with chatelaine by Boucheron & Alfred Menu
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A unique French rose gold and silver Renaissance revival style watch with matching silver and gold mounted leather chatelaine, circa 1883, Jeweled gilt cylinder movement. Gold cuvette. Pink gilt dial, blue enamel Roman numerals, red enamel sun design to the center and gold hands. Case set within an elaborate octagonal silver and gold case, intricately pierced and engraved decoration with winged figure and foliate motifs, gold scroll mounts with attached seal. Similarly decorated chatelaine mounted on a leather strap. Case numbered, chatelaine signed.
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Diameter: 31 mm
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Length overall: 175 mm
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Signed: Fie Boucheron Paris – Alfred Menu
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Length overall: 175 mm
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Signed: Fie Boucheron Paris – Alfred Menu
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Boucheron confirms production of this piece in one example in January 1883. It is recorded in their archives as a ‘chatelaine, octagonal watch and seal, pierced silver with Orlandi style ornaments on a leather background, hinges and ironworks in polished gold, 1183. Engraved by Rhone and execution by Menu for Boucheron.’ Their 1883 and 1884 catalogues offered similarly ornamented works, all designed as unique pieces.
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Alfred Menu (born 1828) was a prolific bijoutier and excellent craftsman who had been apprenticed to Louis Benoist in 1840 before spending eight years with Marret & Jarry. Menu’s beautifully finished gold pieces were frequently inspired by architectural motifs and designs of the Renaissance. A selection of brooches from Maison Menu, with similar workmanship to the central brooch ornament on the present necklace, are illustrated in Vever, H. French Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century, translated from the French by Katherine Purcell, p.
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Literature: Gilles Néret, Boucheron: Four Generations of a World-Renowned Jeweler, Rizzoli, 1988, p. 39, ill. 67. Gilles Néret, Boucheron: The Jeweller of Time. Lausanne, Office du Livre, 1993.
Boucheron confirms production of this piece in one example in January 1883. It is recorded in their archives as a ‘chatelaine, octagonal watch and seal, pierced silver with Orlandi style ornaments on a leather background, hinges and ironworks in polished gold, 1183. Engraved by Rhone and execution by Menu for Boucheron.’ Their 1883 and 1884 catalogues offered similarly ornamented works, all designed as unique pieces.
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Alfred Menu (born 1828) was a prolific bijoutier and excellent craftsman who had been apprenticed to Louis Benoist in 1840 before spending eight years with Marret & Jarry. Menu’s beautifully finished gold pieces were frequently inspired by architectural motifs and designs of the Renaissance. A selection of brooches from Maison Menu, with similar workmanship to the central brooch ornament on the present necklace, are illustrated in Vever, H. French Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century, translated from the French by Katherine Purcell, p.
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Literature: Gilles Néret, Boucheron: Four Generations of a World-Renowned Jeweler, Rizzoli, 1988, p. 39, ill. 67. Gilles Néret, Boucheron: The Jeweller of Time. Lausanne, Office du Livre, 1993.
Signed: Fie Boucheron Paris – Alfred Menu
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