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Watches and Wristwatches / Harper & Son, Salop (Shropshire). A gilt metal key wind pair case pocket watch with repoussé decoration Circa 1790
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Harper & Son, Salop (Shropshire). A gilt metal key wind pair case pocket watch with repoussé decoration
Circa 1790
17 May 2022, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £765 inc. premium
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Harper & Son, Salop (Shropshire). A gilt metal key wind pair case pocket watch with repoussé decoration
Date: Circa 1790
Movement: Gilt full plate fusee verge, pierced and engraved balance bridge, silver regulation, No.1162
Dial: White, black Roman numerals, black outer minute track with Arabic numeral 5 minute markers, gilt hands
Case: Polished inner, repoussé outer depicting Vulcan surprising Mars and Venus
Signed: Movement
Size: 50mm
Movement: Gilt full plate fusee verge, pierced and engraved balance bridge, silver regulation, No.1162
Dial: White, black Roman numerals, black outer minute track with Arabic numeral 5 minute markers, gilt hands
Case: Polished inner, repoussé outer depicting Vulcan surprising Mars and Venus
Signed: Movement
Size: 50mm
Footnotes
Depicted in the repousse is a story taken from Homer's Odyssey (8.266-366). The bard Demodocus tells the story of how Venus, the goddess of love, was married to the blacksmith god Vulcan but was in love with Mars, the god of War. Vulcan made a cobweb of fine chains which he strew across Venus and his bed. Mars and Venus got caught in the chains and Vulcan then invited the other gods to laugh at them.