A FINE FRENCH ENGRAVED GILT AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL PANEL MINIATURE GORGE CASED CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE DROCOURT, PARIS, CIRCA 1880 The rectangular eight-day single train movement with silvered platform lever escapement regulated by sprung split bimetallic balance, the backplate with stamped oval D.C. trademark to left-hand margin and numbered 11738 to lower left-hand corner beneath, the rectangular gilt brass and champleve enamelled dial with powder-blue ground polychrome scroll infill to centre within gilt Roman numeral chapter ring, with gilt hands over conforming symmetrical foliate scrolls to lower apron and further motifs to upper spandrel areas also into a conforming blue ground, the gilt brass gorge case of Mignonette No. 1 size with hinged faceted engraved carrying handle over bevelled oval glass to the floral spray and hatched ground spandrel panel engraved top panel, with geometric band and repeating leafy scroll decorated top mouldings and channelled uprights enclosing enamelled side panels also decorated with symmetrical polychrome floral designs onto a powder-blue ground, the rear with pin-hinged bevel-glazed door, on fine floral spray and horizontal hatch-line engraved ogee-shaped base with rounded angles; with a tooled deep green Morocco leather protective outer travelling case with purple-velvet lined interior. The timepiece 8cm (3.125ins) high excluding handle, 5cm (2ins) wide, 4.5cm (1.75ins) deep; the outer case 9cm (3.5ins) high, 6.5cm (2.5ins) wide, 7cm (2.75ins) deep. Pierre Drocourt is recorded in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development with further additions and corrections from research undertaken by Leigh Extence (available online) as born in 1819 and setting up in business as a clockmaker in Paris in 1853. He initially worked from Rue Limoges (later called 28 Rue Debelleyme after the rationalisation and merger of Streets in 1865), Paris and was succeeded by his son, Alfred (born 1847), in 1872. The blancs roulants, rough movements, were made in Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont, a town outside Dieppe, where Drocourt had workshops until their sale in 1904, being premises purchased from Holingue frères in 1875 who had previously supplied Drocourt. The firm was awarded numerous international exhibition medals and mentions including Silver in Paris 1878 and Gold in 1889. Miniature carriage clocks are called Mignonettes or 'little darlings' and come in three graded sizes with No. 1 being the smallest.
A FINE FRENCH ENGRAVED GILT AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL PANEL MINIATURE GORGE CASED CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE DROCOURT, PARIS, CIRCA 1880 The rectangular eight-day single train movement with silvered platform lever escapement regulated by sprung split bimetallic balance, the backplate with stamped oval D.C. trademark to left-hand margin and numbered 11738 to lower left-hand corner beneath, the rectangular gilt brass and champleve enamelled dial with powder-blue ground polychrome scroll infill to centre within gilt Roman numeral chapter ring, with gilt hands over conforming symmetrical foliate scrolls to lower apron and further motifs to upper spandrel areas also into a conforming blue ground, the gilt brass gorge case of Mignonette No. 1 size with hinged faceted engraved carrying handle over bevelled oval glass to the floral spray and hatched ground spandrel panel engraved top panel, with geometric band and repeating leafy scroll decorated top mouldings and channelled uprights enclosing enamelled side panels also decorated with symmetrical polychrome floral designs onto a powder-blue ground, the rear with pin-hinged bevel-glazed door, on fine floral spray and horizontal hatch-line engraved ogee-shaped base with rounded angles; with a tooled deep green Morocco leather protective outer travelling case with purple-velvet lined interior. The timepiece 8cm (3.125ins) high excluding handle, 5cm (2ins) wide, 4.5cm (1.75ins) deep; the outer case 9cm (3.5ins) high, 6.5cm (2.5ins) wide, 7cm (2.75ins) deep. Pierre Drocourt is recorded in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development with further additions and corrections from research undertaken by Leigh Extence (available online) as born in 1819 and setting up in business as a clockmaker in Paris in 1853. He initially worked from Rue Limoges (later called 28 Rue Debelleyme after the rationalisation and merger of Streets in 1865), Paris and was succeeded by his son, Alfred (born 1847), in 1872. The blancs roulants, rough movements, were made in Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont, a town outside Dieppe, where Drocourt had workshops until their sale in 1904, being premises purchased from Holingue frères in 1875 who had previously supplied Drocourt. The firm was awarded numerous international exhibition medals and mentions including Silver in Paris 1878 and Gold in 1889. Miniature carriage clocks are called Mignonettes or 'little darlings' and come in three graded sizes with No. 1 being the smallest.
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