A PEARL, GOLD AND ENAMEL SINGING BIRD BOX, JAQUET-DROZ & LESCHOT, GENEVA, CIRCA 1792-1793, THE CASE GUIDON, RÉMOND, GIDE & CO., GENEVA
A PEARL, GOLD AND ENAMEL SINGING BIRD BOX, JAQUET-DROZ & LESCHOT, GENEVA, CIRCA 1792-1793, THE CASE GUIDON, RÉMOND, GIDE & CO., GENEVA
oval, the later lid painted on the exterior with Florizel and the maidens after a painting by Charles Reuben Ryley (1752?–1798), combined with Hero, Ursula and Beatrice in Leonato’s Garden (from Much Ado About Nothing), painted by Matthew Peters and engraved for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, the interior painted with flowers, visible when opened to reveal a feathered miniature bird singing, opening and closing its ivory beak and flapping its wings, the opaque light blue enamel ground within white, translucent dark blue and green enamel with elaborate paillon ornaments, the lid and the aperture set with a split-pearl border, maker's mark, the movement signed 'Jaquet Droz & Leschot / London No. 30',
8.9cm., 3½in. wide
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Provenance:
Gustave Loup Collection
The Sir David Salomons Collection, cat. no. 169
Vera Bryce Salomons
L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, inventory no. BO 12-70
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A PEARL, GOLD AND ENAMEL SINGING BIRD BOX, JAQUET-DROZ & LESCHOT, GENEVA, CIRCA 1792-1793, THE CASE GUIDON, RÉMOND, GIDE & CO., GENEVA
oval, the later lid painted on the exterior with Florizel and the maidens after a painting by Charles Reuben Ryley (1752?–1798), combined with Hero, Ursula and Beatrice in Leonato’s Garden (from Much Ado About Nothing), painted by Matthew Peters and engraved for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, the interior painted with flowers, visible when opened to reveal a feathered miniature bird singing, opening and closing its ivory beak and flapping its wings, the opaque light blue enamel ground within white, translucent dark blue and green enamel with elaborate paillon ornaments, the lid and the aperture set with a split-pearl border, maker's mark, the movement signed 'Jaquet Droz & Leschot / London No. 30',
8.9cm., 3½in. wide
Condition Report:
To request a Condition Report, please contact Alexandra.Starp@sothebys.com
Provenance:
Gustave Loup Collection
The Sir David Salomons Collection, cat. no. 169
Vera Bryce Salomons
L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, inventory no. BO 12-70
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