9 Jul 2009
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Chester
The Chester Sale: Day III - Clocks and Barometers
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The Chester Sale: Day III - Clocks and Barometers
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A late 19th Century French inlaid rosewood miniature 'longcase clock' timepiece
Samuel Marti & Cie, Paris
Having a 3.5-inch cream-enamelled Arabic dial with swagged centre, the two-train movement, half-hour striking on a coiled blued steel gong, with Medaille de Bronze exhibition stamp and numbered 1172, the case having an architectural broken pediment with brass urn finial over reeded Corinthian columns, the trunk profusely inlaid with foliage, birds and an urn, over a bead-edged oval lenticle, the inlaid base on a shaped apron with integral bracket feet, 64cm high, sold with a mask-cast pendulum plus a winder
Having a 3.5-inch cream-enamelled Arabic dial with swagged centre, the two-train movement, half-hour striking on a coiled blued steel gong, with Medaille de Bronze exhibition stamp and numbered 1172, the case having an architectural broken pediment with brass urn finial over reeded Corinthian columns, the trunk profusely inlaid with foliage, birds and an urn, over a bead-edged oval lenticle, the inlaid base on a shaped apron with integral bracket feet, 64cm high, sold with a mask-cast pendulum plus a winder
Sold for
£1,020
inc. premium
Category: Clocks and Watches / Clocks
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