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A good late 17th century French cut brass and tortoiseshell mantel clock Panier a Paris
8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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A good late 17th century French cut brass and tortoiseshell mantel clock
Panier a Paris
The caddy top with finials over an open balustrade set on an intricately moulded entablature supported on inlaid circular section Corinthian pillars to a shaped base and turned feet, the ten inch arched dial covered in velvet and set with a gilt Roman chapter ring with outer band depicting every minute in Arabic numerals, with pierced and engraved gilt hands over an applied casting of cornucopia and swags signed PANIER APARIS, the rectangular movement plates united by six baluster pillars, now converted to anchor escapement but retaining the original facetted rise and fall regulation bar, the strike operated via a small numbered countwheel, signed a long the lower edge Panier AParis 56cms (22ins) high.
The caddy top with finials over an open balustrade set on an intricately moulded entablature supported on inlaid circular section Corinthian pillars to a shaped base and turned feet, the ten inch arched dial covered in velvet and set with a gilt Roman chapter ring with outer band depicting every minute in Arabic numerals, with pierced and engraved gilt hands over an applied casting of cornucopia and swags signed PANIER APARIS, the rectangular movement plates united by six baluster pillars, now converted to anchor escapement but retaining the original facetted rise and fall regulation bar, the strike operated via a small numbered countwheel, signed a long the lower edge Panier AParis 56cms (22ins) high.
Footnotes
A similar case by Isaac Thuret, but with pilasters rather than fully formed columns is illustrated in N.H Vehmeyer, Clocks, their origin and development, Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent, 2004, page 815.
Loomes lists a Samuel Panier working in Paris in 1678.