Lot 24
A fine late 18th century French ormolu mounted white marble lyre clock with swinging movement, centre seconds and concentric date Breant, Paris
11 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £18,750 inc. premium
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A fine late 18th century French ormolu mounted white marble lyre clock with swinging movement, centre seconds and concentric date
Breant, Paris
Surmounted by an urn of flowers and fruit over similar swags and beading along the sides, meeting a run of leaves, on a concave socle to a base with applied urn and berried ivy mount on toupie feet, the dial and movement set on the girdiron pendulum hinged on a knife edge above, the 5.5 inch enamel chapter ring with outer Arabic minutes/seconds, concentric date and Roman hours, with a pair of matching lyre-shaped hands for the time and blued steel for seconds and date, the spring driven movement within a pair of skeletonised shaped plates, with finely crossed wheels to both trains, the going terminating in a pin-wheel escapement mounted on a single footed cock to the rear, the strike with a countwheel of five crossings striking on a bell 64cms (25ins) high.
Surmounted by an urn of flowers and fruit over similar swags and beading along the sides, meeting a run of leaves, on a concave socle to a base with applied urn and berried ivy mount on toupie feet, the dial and movement set on the girdiron pendulum hinged on a knife edge above, the 5.5 inch enamel chapter ring with outer Arabic minutes/seconds, concentric date and Roman hours, with a pair of matching lyre-shaped hands for the time and blued steel for seconds and date, the spring driven movement within a pair of skeletonised shaped plates, with finely crossed wheels to both trains, the going terminating in a pin-wheel escapement mounted on a single footed cock to the rear, the strike with a countwheel of five crossings striking on a bell 64cms (25ins) high.
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