Beschreibung:

A fine French engraved gilt brass and porcelain panel inset carriage clock with push-button repeat and alarm Unsigned but possibly Jules Brunelot, Paris, circa 1880 The eight-day two-train gong striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement, alarm sounding on the same gong and stamped with trademark formed as the letter B within a circle to the lower left hand corner of the backplate, the rectangular porcelain panel dial with fine polychrome floral painted centre within pink and gilt bordered Roman numeral cartouche chapter ring, with gilt spade hands, the lower margin incorporating subsidiary alarm setting dial flanked by painted figures of a peasant girl and cupid, the upper decorated with fine bunched floral sprays, the finely engraved gilt brass corniche case with hinged carrying handle to the oval glazed panel centred rococo scroll decorated top over porcelain side panels each centred with a finely painted cartouche of a courting couple in traditional dress within an applied turquoise bead and gilt painted pink ground border, the caddy moulded corner uprights with spiral ribbon engraved decoration and the rear with hinged glazed door incorporating a scroll engraved frame, the base decorated with further rococo scrollwork on a matted ground, 13.5cm (5.25ins) high excluding handle. The trademark stamped to the lower left hand corner of the backplate of the current lot (letter B within a circle) is noted in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development as possibly being for Jules Brunelot although no evidence has been found to confirm this.