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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 4, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | From Earth to Fire | 126 | $****** - ****** | A rare early gold, enamel and pearl musical box, the movement signed: F. Lecoultre |
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The interior of the lid inscribed:
Presented / to the Revd. Rect. P. Davies / by his kind & much esteemed friend / J.D. Thompson Esqr. / Sunny Bank, 1841'The donor, James Duncan Thomson (1787-1851), was a director of the Universal Life Insurance Company and magistrate, who lived at Sunny Bank in Breconshire in the 1830s and acted as High Sheriff for the county in 1838. He moved to PorchesterTerrace, London, but died of a lingering illness in 1851 – ‘His end was perfect peace’ (Morning Advertiser, 27 June 1851). His daughter Mary had been born in 1837 in Llangasty , Breconshire, where the recipient, Rev. Richard William Payne Davies (1806-1890) was rector. He was later archdeacon of Brecon from 1859-1875.
The box passed to his sister, Maria;
her son, Rev. Augustus Browne (1832-1916), of Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire;
his daughter, Amy Maria Browne (born 1864), wife of Jonathan Jones;
their daughter, Gytha Blanche Marsden Jones (1900-1988;
thence by descent until recently
Associated literature:
Rapport sur l’exposition des produits de l’industrie genevoise, Geneva, 1828;
Alfred Chapuis, History of the Musical Box and of Mechanical Music, translation New Jersey, 1980;
François Jequier, ‘Les relations économique entre Genève et la Vallée de Joux, Bulletin de la Société d’histoire et d’archéologie de Genève, vol. xv, 1973, p. 115
of rounded rectangular form, the lid inset with a painted enamel plaque depicting Joan of Arc within a half-pearl border, the sides and base moiré engine-turned within taille d'épargne floral borders on black and light blue grounds, the interior of the lid with later inscription, the interior with pinned barrel and single comb movement, stamped: F. LECOULTRE, excellently playing two airs, the rim struck with departmental French petite garantie for 1809-1819, with contemporary red leather case (in the manner of Rundell, Bridge & Rundell) and later key
Quantity: 3
