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A fine and rare early 19th century bronze tellurion clock, with annual calendar, 24 hour dial and equation of time Quentin Moinet, 1830
11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£30,000 - £50,000
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A fine and rare early 19th century bronze tellurion clock, with annual calendar, 24 hour dial and equation of time
Quentin Moinet, 1830
Surmounted by a fully geared tellurion centred by a gilt brass sun orbited by the earth and the moon orbiting the earth, their respective positions dictated by 19 geared wheels mounted within a brass frame set on a nine inch circular silvered dial plate engraved with an annual calendar with zodiac names and signs, inset with a gilt brass recessed compass, the periphery of the dial mounted with blued steel cardinal points (N, S, E and W) raised on upright slotted brackets at the equinoxes and Solstices, the whole raised on three curved brackets and the top of the clock dial, the former set with three patinated bronze Classical male masks, the latter with a 1.75 inch enamel Arabic dial with outer touch pieces and an anthemion-cast bezel, the clock movement with pin-wheel escapement to a silk suspended pendulum, the spring barrel also powering the planetarium above via bevelled gearing, the equation of time hand connected to a horizontal kidney shaped cam on the main dial above via a fusee chain on a sprung arbor.
The whole apparatus held aloft on the shoulders of a bronze figure of Hercules, head bent, his club by his side, on a green-patinated plinth base with engraved inscription to all four sides, as outlined below (signed twice by the engraver E.RIEUL)
Front: Fecit QUENTIN MOINET 1830/ Moderator N. Deliee 1846
Right hand side: Decede a l'Hopital du Havre / le 29th Novbre. 1831 / Il a fait et laisse trois Pendules Astonomique / DE DIVERSE MODELES / qui ont etede Vendues et Achetees par des Amateurs / APRES SON DECES
Rear panel: Fecti Quentin MOINET 1830 / Moderateur N. Deliee 1846
Left hand side: Prosper Marie Quentin Moinet / ancien Controleur au Bureau de la Garantie / Du Havre / Ne a Beaumont sur Oise / le 22 MAI 1782
(noting that Moinet died at the Havre Hospital in 1831 and left us three different astronomical clocks)
The base with cast anthemion border, now raised on a circular base to take the tall 19th century glass dome.
Height of dome 50cms (19.5ins) high.
Surmounted by a fully geared tellurion centred by a gilt brass sun orbited by the earth and the moon orbiting the earth, their respective positions dictated by 19 geared wheels mounted within a brass frame set on a nine inch circular silvered dial plate engraved with an annual calendar with zodiac names and signs, inset with a gilt brass recessed compass, the periphery of the dial mounted with blued steel cardinal points (N, S, E and W) raised on upright slotted brackets at the equinoxes and Solstices, the whole raised on three curved brackets and the top of the clock dial, the former set with three patinated bronze Classical male masks, the latter with a 1.75 inch enamel Arabic dial with outer touch pieces and an anthemion-cast bezel, the clock movement with pin-wheel escapement to a silk suspended pendulum, the spring barrel also powering the planetarium above via bevelled gearing, the equation of time hand connected to a horizontal kidney shaped cam on the main dial above via a fusee chain on a sprung arbor.
The whole apparatus held aloft on the shoulders of a bronze figure of Hercules, head bent, his club by his side, on a green-patinated plinth base with engraved inscription to all four sides, as outlined below (signed twice by the engraver E.RIEUL)
Front: Fecit QUENTIN MOINET 1830/ Moderator N. Deliee 1846
Right hand side: Decede a l'Hopital du Havre / le 29th Novbre. 1831 / Il a fait et laisse trois Pendules Astonomique / DE DIVERSE MODELES / qui ont etede Vendues et Achetees par des Amateurs / APRES SON DECES
Rear panel: Fecti Quentin MOINET 1830 / Moderateur N. Deliee 1846
Left hand side: Prosper Marie Quentin Moinet / ancien Controleur au Bureau de la Garantie / Du Havre / Ne a Beaumont sur Oise / le 22 MAI 1782
(noting that Moinet died at the Havre Hospital in 1831 and left us three different astronomical clocks)
The base with cast anthemion border, now raised on a circular base to take the tall 19th century glass dome.
Height of dome 50cms (19.5ins) high.
Footnotes
(Noting that Moinet died at the Havre Hospital in 1831 and left us three different astronomical clocks).