Auction Closed
July 14, 12:35 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
SWISS
A GOLD AND ENAMEL QUARTER REPEATING MUSICAL AUTOM🐻ATON WATCH FOR THE CHINESE MARꦫKET
CIRCA 1800
gilded full plate movement partially engraved with fowers and foliage, cylinder escapement, pinned barrel musical movement, gilt cuvette bearing the signature Ellicott, Royal Exchange, London, quarter repeating on two steel gongs, small eccentric dial, engine-turned centre, Arabic numerals, restored polychrome enamel dial plate depicting a landscape, vari-coloured automata figures in the foreground of two musicians and a small 𝓰bird, gold case ♛with moulded band, slide in the band to activate the automaton, engine-turned case back with blank shield and applied monogram
diameter 62mm