A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND WHITE MARBLE QUARTER-CHIMING MANTLE CLOCK robert et courvoisier, late 18th century The circular white enamel Arabic dial signed Robert et Courvoisier , elaborate pierced ormolu hands, outer star minute markers and inner hour chapters separated by a narrow blue enamel band decorated with gilt foliage and inscribed Le Temps Passe et Nous avec Lui , the circular twin-barrel movement with four back-pinned pillars, anchor escapement with silk-suspended sunburst pendulum, countwheel quarter strike on two bells on the backplate with visible polished steel rack work, the case surmounted by a white marble urn with black marble pedestal and filled with ormolu flowers, the dial suspended between two flanking columns applied with ormolu flower-filled torcheres, foliate ormolu apron beneath the dial centered by a porcelain cameo, the rectangular plinth with a foliate ormolu frieze and on milled toupie feet 21¾in. (55cm.) high
A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND WHITE MARBLE QUARTER-CHIMING MANTLE CLOCK robert et courvoisier, late 18th century The circular white enamel Arabic dial signed Robert et Courvoisier , elaborate pierced ormolu hands, outer star minute markers and inner hour chapters separated by a narrow blue enamel band decorated with gilt foliage and inscribed Le Temps Passe et Nous avec Lui , the circular twin-barrel movement with four back-pinned pillars, anchor escapement with silk-suspended sunburst pendulum, countwheel quarter strike on two bells on the backplate with visible polished steel rack work, the case surmounted by a white marble urn with black marble pedestal and filled with ormolu flowers, the dial suspended between two flanking columns applied with ormolu flower-filled torcheres, foliate ormolu apron beneath the dial centered by a porcelain cameo, the rectangular plinth with a foliate ormolu frieze and on milled toupie feet 21¾in. (55cm.) high
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