AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND MARMO BROCCATELLO DI SPAGNA LONG DURATION STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK WITH CALENDAR AND REMONTOIRE ATTRIBUTED TO VERNEUIL, CIRCA 1800 The movement with inverted Y-form frame with four double-screwed pillars, beat adjuster on crutch, pinwheel escapement mounted on the backplate with knife-edge suspended front swinging pendulum, twin going barrels, strike on bell, with 60 second remontoire mounted on the backplate, the white enamel Roman chapter ring with outer concentric date ring decorated with applied gold leaves with translucent green enamel berries, signed Coteau to the reverse, pierced blued steel hour and minute hands, steel sweep center seconds hand, subsidiary enamel rings below for day of the week and month with individual Zodiac names, with blue enamel rolling moonphase above, on twin pedestal marble supports with ormolu bases and on rectangular plinth with four ormolu flattened bun feet 27 ¾ in. (70.5 cm.) high, 13 7/8 in. (35 cm.) wide, 5 5/8 in. (14.5 cm.) deep Provenance Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 October 1982, lot 232.
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND MARMO BROCCATELLO DI SPAGNA LONG DURATION STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK WITH CALENDAR AND REMONTOIRE ATTRIBUTED TO VERNEUIL, CIRCA 1800 The movement with inverted Y-form frame with four double-screwed pillars, beat adjuster on crutch, pinwheel escapement mounted on the backplate with knife-edge suspended front swinging pendulum, twin going barrels, strike on bell, with 60 second remontoire mounted on the backplate, the white enamel Roman chapter ring with outer concentric date ring decorated with applied gold leaves with translucent green enamel berries, signed Coteau to the reverse, pierced blued steel hour and minute hands, steel sweep center seconds hand, subsidiary enamel rings below for day of the week and month with individual Zodiac names, with blue enamel rolling moonphase above, on twin pedestal marble supports with ormolu bases and on rectangular plinth with four ormolu flattened bun feet 27 ¾ in. (70.5 cm.) high, 13 7/8 in. (35 cm.) wide, 5 5/8 in. (14.5 cm.) deep Provenance Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 October 1982, lot 232.
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