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MOULINIÉ, BAUTTE & CIE. AN EXTREMELY RARE, IMPORTANT AND FINE GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET FLINTLOCK PISTOL-FORM PERFUME SPRINKLER WITH CONCEALED WATCH, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET
SIGNED MOULINIÉ, BAUTTE & CIE, GENEVE, CIRCA 1805
MOULINIÉ, BAUTTE & CIE. AN EXTREMELY RARE, IMPORTANT AND FINE GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL-SET FLINTLOCK PISTOL-FORM PERFUME SPRINKLER WITH CONCEALED WATCH, MADE FOR THE CHINESE MARKET SIGNED MOULINIÉ, BAUTTE & CIE, GENEVE, CIRCA 1805 Gilt brass verge movement, chain fusée, pierced and chased cock, polished steel endstone, white enamel dial, Arabic numerals, gold hands, concealed behind circular covers at the end of the handle, opening on secret button in the band, flintlock-shaped gold case, grips with translucent scarlet enamel over engine-turned background, set with pearl-set gold rosette, split pearl-set lower and upper edges, centred by split-pearl framed gold plates finely chased with a dog on one side and a rabbit on the reverse, the top edges set with half pearls, gold matted and engraved hammer, the head of the flint vise engraved with lion's head, engraved rounded gold vise nut, agate flint, blue enamelled octagonal barrel decorated with paillonné and laurel foliage simulating damascene works, pearl-set tip, the perfume is spread through the pistils of the gold tulip with enamel petals, released by the percussion of the hammer when the trigger is depressed, with gold slide underneath to retreat into the barrel, signed Moulinié Bautte & Cie a Geneve under the trigger 110 mm. overall length