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Auction archive: Lot number 22

A rare late 19th century French Grande Sonnerie striking and repeating Carriage clock with alarm and enamel panels

Fine Clocks
19 Jun 2019
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,771 - US$6,286
Price realised:
£2,550
ca. US$3,205
Auction archive: Lot number 22

A rare late 19th century French Grande Sonnerie striking and repeating Carriage clock with alarm and enamel panels

Fine Clocks
19 Jun 2019
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,771 - US$6,286
Price realised:
£2,550
ca. US$3,205
Beschreibung:

A rare late 19th century French Grande Sonnerie striking and repeating Carriage clock with alarm and enamel panels The movement numbered 4627 The cast and chased brass case of canted form modelled with foliate scrolls, surmounted by a handle of conforming design, with asymmetric bevelled glass top and repeat button, raised on scroll feet, each side set with a dark blue guilloche enamel plaque, the centre of the two side panels painted with the bust of a woman in eighteenth century costume within a gilt rocaille border, the silvered Arabic dial with blued steel hands, within a gilt painted rocaille border and garden implements, the spring barrel movement with silvered lever platform escapement and jewelled cut and compensated bi-metallic balance, striking the hours and the quarters on a pair of blued steel gongs, the backplate further set with an enamel alarm setting dial, numbered 4627. The lot is sold with a winding key stamped 3. 18cms (7ins)high (2) Fußnoten A similar example sold in these rooms 16 December 2015, lot 125.

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

A rare late 19th century French Grande Sonnerie striking and repeating Carriage clock with alarm and enamel panels The movement numbered 4627 The cast and chased brass case of canted form modelled with foliate scrolls, surmounted by a handle of conforming design, with asymmetric bevelled glass top and repeat button, raised on scroll feet, each side set with a dark blue guilloche enamel plaque, the centre of the two side panels painted with the bust of a woman in eighteenth century costume within a gilt rocaille border, the silvered Arabic dial with blued steel hands, within a gilt painted rocaille border and garden implements, the spring barrel movement with silvered lever platform escapement and jewelled cut and compensated bi-metallic balance, striking the hours and the quarters on a pair of blued steel gongs, the backplate further set with an enamel alarm setting dial, numbered 4627. The lot is sold with a winding key stamped 3. 18cms (7ins)high (2) Fußnoten A similar example sold in these rooms 16 December 2015, lot 125.

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
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