LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Details
A French gilt-brass and porcelain-mounted striking and repeating carriage clock
last quarter 19th century
The pillars case with part-fluted and foliate-clasped columns, mounted with side panels colourfully decorated in the Orientalist manner with vignettes of birds amidst branches, cranes flying and budding branches against a yellow-cream ground painted with gilt motifs, the conforming dial with plain white Roman chapter ring, blued spade hands, the twin barrel movement with silvered platform to bimetallic balance with lever escapement, with strike/repeat on gong
6¾in. (17cm.) high
last quarter 19th century
The pillars case with part-fluted and foliate-clasped columns, mounted with side panels colourfully decorated in the Orientalist manner with vignettes of birds amidst branches, cranes flying and budding branches against a yellow-cream ground painted with gilt motifs, the conforming dial with plain white Roman chapter ring, blued spade hands, the twin barrel movement with silvered platform to bimetallic balance with lever escapement, with strike/repeat on gong
6¾in. (17cm.) high