JEWELLERY, ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 25 February 2020 - 10:00 AM start
A late 19thC French gold chatelaine watch
Realised: $2,750 plus premium
Lot Details
the chatelaine worked in unmarked gold, silver, coloured enamels and small diamonds with a coronet framed by heraldic ermine above the motto 'Potius Mori Quam Foedari' (its origins from the Order of the Ermine, a chivalric order established in Brittany); the watch with white enamel dial suspended on fleur-de-lis chains with a coat-of-arms worked in gold, silver, coloured enamels and small diamonds to the back; the dust cover engraved: "Feuillebois-Parent, Rue St. Honoré 207, Paris'; stamped with chimera import mark (pre-1873) and numbered 141214. Provenance: Family of Meffray de Césarges, Maubec, France, by descent.
