| A late 18th Century miniature English verge made for the Turkish market in gold and enamel pair cases. Small full plate fire gilt movement with fusee and chain. Egyptian pillars with pierced gallery above. Pierced and engraved cock, pierced and engraved foot and plate for the silver
regulator disc with Turkish markings. Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring. Signed white enamel dial with Turkish numerals, gold beetle hour hand, later minute hand. Gold and enamel pair cases. The inner with engraved bezel and edge decorated with champleve enamel, the back fully restored depicting a purple pansy on a light green ground. The outer case of gold and enamel, the two halves meeting at a scalloped edge, faces
decorated in light blue enamel. The bezels decorated in light and dark blue champleve enamel. The scene on the back fully restored depicting a fortress beside a lake surrounded by mountains, the "sky" in translucent red enamel over an engine turned ground.
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