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A fine gilt striking and repeating carriage clock with alarm Signed Jules à Paris, circa 1840
26 October 2015, 10:00 EDT
New YorkUS$5,000 - US$7,000
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A fine gilt striking and repeating carriage clock with alarm
Signed Jules à Paris, circa 1840
The case elaborately cast and chased with scrolls and foliage and figures of a huntsman and lady to the angles, the gilt dial profusely engraved with foliate scrolls enclosing a matted roman chapter ring and subsidiary alarm dial, blued trefoil hands, twin barrel movement with gilt platform and bridge for the Jules-type lever escapement, rack striking the hours and half hour and repeating the hours on a bell planted on the back plate
height 7.5in (19cm) including handle
The case elaborately cast and chased with scrolls and foliage and figures of a huntsman and lady to the angles, the gilt dial profusely engraved with foliate scrolls enclosing a matted roman chapter ring and subsidiary alarm dial, blued trefoil hands, twin barrel movement with gilt platform and bridge for the Jules-type lever escapement, rack striking the hours and half hour and repeating the hours on a bell planted on the back plate
height 7.5in (19cm) including handle