A Directoire white marble, bronze and ormolu skeletonised orrery clock of long duration Unsigned, circa 1800 The movement with pierced-out plates, four wheel train, horizontally positioned plain steel three-armed balance with blued hairspring to the pin wheel escapement of Sully-type, large going barrel and four plain back-pinned pillars, the white enamel Arabic annular dial with visible cadrature and pierced ormolu hands, subsidiary seconds ring above, the drive to the orrery taken directly from the second wheel pinion via a vertical arbor and with the provision of a manual hand crank positioned on the right side of the back-plate, the orrery itself of heliocentric form with an orbiting earth and six other planets, the whole orrery enclosed within a glass globe etched with the constellations and supported by three ormolu-draped bronze Herms on marble socles supported on a concave-sided triangular base with foliate ormolu moulding and supported on claw-and-ball feet; the globe possibly of later date 20 in. (52 cm.) high
A Directoire white marble, bronze and ormolu skeletonised orrery clock of long duration Unsigned, circa 1800 The movement with pierced-out plates, four wheel train, horizontally positioned plain steel three-armed balance with blued hairspring to the pin wheel escapement of Sully-type, large going barrel and four plain back-pinned pillars, the white enamel Arabic annular dial with visible cadrature and pierced ormolu hands, subsidiary seconds ring above, the drive to the orrery taken directly from the second wheel pinion via a vertical arbor and with the provision of a manual hand crank positioned on the right side of the back-plate, the orrery itself of heliocentric form with an orbiting earth and six other planets, the whole orrery enclosed within a glass globe etched with the constellations and supported by three ormolu-draped bronze Herms on marble socles supported on a concave-sided triangular base with foliate ormolu moulding and supported on claw-and-ball feet; the globe possibly of later date 20 in. (52 cm.) high
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