Lot Essay
The Parisian watchmaker Denis Masson was working between 1744 and 1778. For a near identical watch dated 1600-1615, see OA 7059 in the Louvre Museum, from the Paul Garnier collection.
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THE MOVEMENT SIGNED MASSON A PARIS, FECIT, NO. 1546; THE CASE 19TH CENTURY POSSIBLY BY REINHOLD VASTERS
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A ROCK CRYSTAL, GOLD AND ENAMEL SINGLE-HAND VERGE PENDANT WATCH
THE MOVEMENT SIGNED MASSON A PARIS, FECIT, NO. 1546; THE CASE 19TH CENTURY POSSIBLY BY REINHOLD VASTERS
Hexagonal rock crystal case with two hinged diamond-cut covers with beveled edges, the dial plate enameled in translucent polychrome champlevé with grotesques motifs featuring insects and birds, the gold hinge plates, pendant, lower knob and fixing notches enameled with similar ornaments; the movement, oval with fusee, circular single-footed foliate pierced and chased balance cock, silvered regulation dial; the dial, gilt with Roman chapter ring and half-hour markers, polychrome enamel decoration, single steel hand, signed around the edge, the cock pierced and engraved with scrolling motifs
2 ½ in. (6.5 cm.) high
THE MOVEMENT SIGNED MASSON A PARIS, FECIT, NO. 1546; THE CASE 19TH CENTURY POSSIBLY BY REINHOLD VASTERS
Hexagonal rock crystal case with two hinged diamond-cut covers with beveled edges, the dial plate enameled in translucent polychrome champlevé with grotesques motifs featuring insects and birds, the gold hinge plates, pendant, lower knob and fixing notches enameled with similar ornaments; the movement, oval with fusee, circular single-footed foliate pierced and chased balance cock, silvered regulation dial; the dial, gilt with Roman chapter ring and half-hour markers, polychrome enamel decoration, single steel hand, signed around the edge, the cock pierced and engraved with scrolling motifs
2 ½ in. (6.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Fumoir sur la cour, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 2483).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/32).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Fumoir sur la cour, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 2483).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/32).
Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.