Lot 68
An unusual ormolu Equation of Time portico clock with fusee movement Signed Corniquet à Paris, circa 1795
6 June 2018, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$13,750 inc. premium
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An unusual ormolu Equation of Time portico clock with fusee movement
Signed Corniquet à Paris, circa 1795
The case depicting an artist putto drawing a dog above the molded cornice supported by four female herms on a base chased with anthemion and bell flowers and raised on bun feet, the white enamel dial within a bezel above a garland with mask of Mercury, roman chapters, aperture to view annual calendar, blued mean time and solar time hands, the latter with applied sun, the movement with arched rectangular plates joined by five knopped pillars, Equation cam planted on the back plate, going train with fusee, pinwheel escapement mounted between the plates, spring suspended mock gridiron pendulum, count wheel striking train with going barrel 20 in. (50cm)high
The case depicting an artist putto drawing a dog above the molded cornice supported by four female herms on a base chased with anthemion and bell flowers and raised on bun feet, the white enamel dial within a bezel above a garland with mask of Mercury, roman chapters, aperture to view annual calendar, blued mean time and solar time hands, the latter with applied sun, the movement with arched rectangular plates joined by five knopped pillars, Equation cam planted on the back plate, going train with fusee, pinwheel escapement mounted between the plates, spring suspended mock gridiron pendulum, count wheel striking train with going barrel 20 in. (50cm)high
Footnotes
Philippe-Jacques Corniquet, (maître 1785) working until at least 1810. Corniquet used a virtually identical case for a complicated calendar clock with 24-hour chapter ring, moon phase and decimal time indication now in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
