A silver-inlaid ebony crucifix
A silver-inlaid ebony crucifix
Inset with a pocketwatch movement (signed "Ester AParis") to the front. The beams of the cross later. Silver unmarked. One enamel cartouche to the watch face lost, as well as an applique to the lower cross beam, replaced with a red paste stone. A chip to the upper back corner of the base. H 53 cm.
The base of the crucifix and the silver décor probably South German, mid-17th C.
Provenance
Private collection, Austria.
Literature
On Ester cf.: Baillie, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, London 1966, p. 102.
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A silver-inlaid ebony crucifix
Inset with a pocketwatch movement (signed "Ester AParis") to the front. The beams of the cross later. Silver unmarked. One enamel cartouche to the watch face lost, as well as an applique to the lower cross beam, replaced with a red paste stone. A chip to the upper back corner of the base. H 53 cm.
The base of the crucifix and the silver décor probably South German, mid-17th C.
Provenance
Private collection, Austria.
Literature
On Ester cf.: Baillie, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, London 1966, p. 102.
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