A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH QUARTER STRIKING AND MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK
THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT SIGNED 'JULIEN LE ROY A PARIS', MID-18TH CENTURY, REMOUNTED
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH QUARTER STRIKING AND MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT SIGNED 'JULIEN LE ROY A PARIS', MID-18TH CENTURY, REMOUNTED The cast ormolu dial with individual Roman and Arabic enamel chapters, the centre signed Julien le Roy A Paris , blued steel hands and sweep centre seconds, the movement with spring barrels for the strike trains and weight-driven for the going train with pinwheel escapement, hour and quarter countwheels on the backplate, hour strike on a bell and quarters on two bells, with repeat signature on the backplate, with musical movement in the plinth with gut fusee and spring barrel within a four pillar wheel train assembly beside the pin barrel playing on fifteen bells via twenty two hammers, within a shaped case with generous C-scroll and foliate mounts and surmounted by a figure of Neptune seated on a shell, the lower section with a shaped door with pierced red silk-backed trellis and a jester among musical instruments, on a shaped plinth 97 in. (247 cm.) high
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH QUARTER STRIKING AND MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK
THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT SIGNED 'JULIEN LE ROY A PARIS', MID-18TH CENTURY, REMOUNTED
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH QUARTER STRIKING AND MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT SIGNED 'JULIEN LE ROY A PARIS', MID-18TH CENTURY, REMOUNTED The cast ormolu dial with individual Roman and Arabic enamel chapters, the centre signed Julien le Roy A Paris , blued steel hands and sweep centre seconds, the movement with spring barrels for the strike trains and weight-driven for the going train with pinwheel escapement, hour and quarter countwheels on the backplate, hour strike on a bell and quarters on two bells, with repeat signature on the backplate, with musical movement in the plinth with gut fusee and spring barrel within a four pillar wheel train assembly beside the pin barrel playing on fifteen bells via twenty two hammers, within a shaped case with generous C-scroll and foliate mounts and surmounted by a figure of Neptune seated on a shell, the lower section with a shaped door with pierced red silk-backed trellis and a jester among musical instruments, on a shaped plinth 97 in. (247 cm.) high
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