A fine French painted porcelain panel inset engraved gilt brass miniature carriage timepiece Drocourt, Paris, late 19 th century The eight-day single train movement with silvered platform lever escapement and backplate stamped with oval D.C. trademark over serial number 12981 to the lower left hand corner, the rectangular porcelain dial polychrome painted with a scene of a female in 18 th century dress and Cupid within a river landscape to lower margin, beneath Roman numeral chapter ring and blued steel spade hands and bordered by a turquoise bead decorated gilt banded pink surround, the gilt cannelee case of Mignonette No. 1 size with hinged carrying handle over central oval bevel-glazed panel to the fine floral scroll engraved top, the sides with panels further painted with full length figures within conforming turquoise bead gilt and pink surrounds and matching rear door panel decorated with a watermill, rococo scroll engraved skirt base, 3.25ins high excluding handle. Pierre Drocourt is recorded in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development as born in 1819 and setting up in business as a clockmaker in Paris in 1853. He initially worked from Rue Limoges later moving to 28 Rue Debelleyme, 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. As an addendum to the above footnote the dates relating to Pierre and Alfred Drocourt together with the information relating to their operations in Saint-Nicolas-d Aliermont and their relationship with Hollingue Fr è res is additional to the information provided by Allix and Bonnert. Full acknowledgement for the research leading to the provision of this valuable information needs to be given to Leigh Extence whose work can be found online at www.extence.co.uk . In addition to this Leigh Extence has confirmed that the Rue Limoges and Rue Debelleyme addresses were actually the same premises renamed during the process of rationalisation and merger of Parisian streets in 1865.
A fine French painted porcelain panel inset engraved gilt brass miniature carriage timepiece Drocourt, Paris, late 19 th century The eight-day single train movement with silvered platform lever escapement and backplate stamped with oval D.C. trademark over serial number 12981 to the lower left hand corner, the rectangular porcelain dial polychrome painted with a scene of a female in 18 th century dress and Cupid within a river landscape to lower margin, beneath Roman numeral chapter ring and blued steel spade hands and bordered by a turquoise bead decorated gilt banded pink surround, the gilt cannelee case of Mignonette No. 1 size with hinged carrying handle over central oval bevel-glazed panel to the fine floral scroll engraved top, the sides with panels further painted with full length figures within conforming turquoise bead gilt and pink surrounds and matching rear door panel decorated with a watermill, rococo scroll engraved skirt base, 3.25ins high excluding handle. Pierre Drocourt is recorded in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development as born in 1819 and setting up in business as a clockmaker in Paris in 1853. He initially worked from Rue Limoges later moving to 28 Rue Debelleyme, 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. As an addendum to the above footnote the dates relating to Pierre and Alfred Drocourt together with the information relating to their operations in Saint-Nicolas-d Aliermont and their relationship with Hollingue Fr è res is additional to the information provided by Allix and Bonnert. Full acknowledgement for the research leading to the provision of this valuable information needs to be given to Leigh Extence whose work can be found online at www.extence.co.uk . In addition to this Leigh Extence has confirmed that the Rue Limoges and Rue Debelleyme addresses were actually the same premises renamed during the process of rationalisation and merger of Parisian streets in 1865.
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