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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 419

Geneva, probably by Piguet & Capt, circa 1805.Very fine and rare, large, 18K gold and enamel, pearl-set pendant designed as a shield escutcheon with automata.

C. Two-body, engraved band partly covered in red translucent enamel with small blue enamel frieze in the center,half-pearl set bezels, loose bow. D. Painted enamel country scene with a mill, superimposed multicolored gold and silver low relief with an automated scene of a girl feeding a sheep, the girl?s arm, with a sheaf of wheat, moving up and down, the sheep?s head nodding, another sheep nodding its head as it grazes, a dog lowering its head towards a running stream, and a watermill, the glazed back engraved with a boy jumping into a fountain in a garden. M. Shaped, 30x26 mm. brass, 8-wheel train withoing barrel, the governing pinion with adjustable bushing to control the automaton?s speed, a small lever at the bottom to start and stop the automaton.Diam. 42x38 mm.