Rehearsal watch with three cases Esther for Ahasuerus, Rehearsal watch with three cases. The timepiece covered with a dust cover, and on the front by a white enamel dial with numeral ring. The golden interior cupboard hinged at the top is decorated on the sides with openwork flower and leaf work, interrupted on the four sides by panels surrounded with volutes. The panels are filled with allegories on the four elements. The side-hinged gold overcase is surrounded at the front and at the rear by open-worked grilles with flowers, and is interrupted by four panels enclosed by volutes. Allegories are placed therein on the seasons, on the front only represented by symbols, on the back by personifications. The large back panel, surrounded by symmetrical movable volutes, is filled with a representation of Esther for Ahasuerus. The whole is closed in a gilt copper protective case, covered with green rye leather and studded with gold nails in pattern, Beurs van Hendrik de Keyser, Beurs van Zocher, Andries Vermeulen, 1734, gold (metal), glass, copper (metal), gilding (material), gilding, d 5.8 cm d 5 cm
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