Baroque Objets d'Art and Vertu

Period: XVIII century. Provenance: French, signed Haye. Dimensions: 8 cm x 5,9 cm Signed HAYE A PARIS, octagonal brass dial engraved, inset compass, mounted with hinged gnomon with ...

Period: XVIII century. Provenance: Germany, signed Johan Schrettegger Augsburg. Dimensions: 5 cm x 5 cm / étui 5,7 cm x 6 cm. Horizontal sundial finely carved gilded brass, signed...

A beautiful, rare solid silver Anglo-French octagonal pocket sundial with compass by Michael Butterfield, circa 1700. The sundial is made for a latitude of 44° and could be used in ...

Rare Find Cartier “Royking” “Circa 1970” 18k Gold & Cream Lacquer With Case Cartier “Royking” lighter. Circe 1970 CARTIER Roy King Rollagas, a Unique RARE example of a ROYKING desi...

French baroque egg-shaped box. An exceptional beautiful box, created in Paris France during the late 18th century, circa 1780. The box is most probably a snuff box, designed in the ...

A beautiful late 19th century French Napoleon III style antique mirror dating around 1880. Made from solid wood with a beaten brass surface decorated with various geometric and flora...

A beautiful and elaborate enamelled glass and paste chatelaine, all set in silver. (A chatelaine was a set of chains, or one fixture made to be worn by the house keeper, to carry key...

French snuff box in agate and gold. Fabulous round box, created in Paris France during the reigning period of king Louis XV back in the 1760. This beautiful box has been designed wi...

Chinese conchinoiseries box in black lacquered wood and silk interior Exquisite and beautiful Chinese box in lacquered wood with gold chinoiseries representing different Chinese custom scenes. Inside the box is lined with hand-painted silk With a representation of a bird and camellias in very good condition for its age and use. The Camellia represents longevity in oriental culture. and happiness. These types of boxes were used to transport ivory fans...

Le Must de Cartier Very Rare Royking Lighter, 18k Gold Plating & Enamel Inlay Cartier “Royking” lighter. Circe 1970 CARTIER Roy King Rollagas, a Uniq...

Le Must de Cartier Very Rare Royking Lighter, 18k Gold Plating & Enamel Inlay Cartier “Royking” lighter. Circe 1970 CARTIER Roy King Rollagas, a Uniq...

Cartier “Royking” lighter. Circe 1970 CARTIER Roy King Rollagas, a Unique RARE example of a ROYKING designed Cartier Rollagas lighter made circa 1970's, 18K Gold Baroque Inlay with Red and Blue lacquer, mint condition. Roy King emblem on top side part of Cartier. The Lighter Includes original Cartier case. ROY KING, who has died aged 87, was a leading British watch designer and jeweller, with customers ranging from Saudi princes to The Beatles and Tom Jones. King began his career at the age of 14 as an apprentice goldsmith and diamond mounter in Hatton Garden. By 21 he was foreman of a workshop, creating one-off pieces which readily found buyers (including members of the Royal Family) through Bond Street jewellers. Much of his work in the 1930s was also as an uncredited manufacturer for names such as Rolex, Cartier, Asprey and Garrard. After the war, King began to design and make watches under his own name. When restrictions on the import of Swiss watch movements were lifted in 1960, King decided to integrate these into his own designs, recognising that, whoever the manufacturer might be, people still wanted "Swiss Made" moving parts. He signed an exclusive agency agreement with Bueche-Girod, the Swiss movement makers, which left him free to design the exterior of the pieces as he wished. He also began to make watches with straps...