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A rare late 17th / early 18th century French brass-strung, tortoiseshell and ebony veneered weight driven wall clock Gaudron, Paris
21 November 2023, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £10,240 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA rare late 17th / early 18th century French brass-strung, tortoiseshell and ebony veneered weight driven wall clock
Gaudron, Paris
The arched case surmounted by three gilt brass flaming urn finials over gilt-metal mounted columns to each corner, on an inverted breakfront base and cast toupie feet, the sides with full length glazed panels, and a solid rear door.
The black velvet-covered dial plate with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, the outer edge engraved with every minute, showing running seconds via a subsidiary dial below XII, with good pierced and engraved gilt brass hands, the main ring held aloft by the reclining figure of Chronos on top of a plinth signed Solem Audet Dicere Falsum, Gaudron AParis. ('It dares the sun to tell a lie')
The weight driven movement with rectangular shallow-arched plates united by six vase shaped pillars pinned through the backplate, the going train with anchor escapement, the strike train with solid numbered countwheel mounted on the rear, sounding the full hour on the hour and a passing strike on the half past, over the engraved signature Gaudron AParis. Ticking and striking. Together with a pendulum and a case key.
32cm wide x 16cm deep x 48cm high, (12 1/2in wide x 6in deep x 18 1/2in high)
The arched case surmounted by three gilt brass flaming urn finials over gilt-metal mounted columns to each corner, on an inverted breakfront base and cast toupie feet, the sides with full length glazed panels, and a solid rear door.
The black velvet-covered dial plate with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, the outer edge engraved with every minute, showing running seconds via a subsidiary dial below XII, with good pierced and engraved gilt brass hands, the main ring held aloft by the reclining figure of Chronos on top of a plinth signed Solem Audet Dicere Falsum, Gaudron AParis. ('It dares the sun to tell a lie')
The weight driven movement with rectangular shallow-arched plates united by six vase shaped pillars pinned through the backplate, the going train with anchor escapement, the strike train with solid numbered countwheel mounted on the rear, sounding the full hour on the hour and a passing strike on the half past, over the engraved signature Gaudron AParis. Ticking and striking. Together with a pendulum and a case key.
32cm wide x 16cm deep x 48cm high, (12 1/2in wide x 6in deep x 18 1/2in high)
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Provenance
Toebosh Antiques, Amsterdam, April 2022.