A French giant gilt-brass grande sonnerie carriage clock with calendar, alarm and seconds

NO.11452, RETAILED BY TIFFANY. CIRCA 1875

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A French giant gilt-brass grande sonnerie carriage clock with calendar, alarm and seconds
no.11452, retailed by tiffany. circa 1875
The gorge case with floral engraved mask to the recessed white enamel Roman dial with Arabic five minutes, with seconds ring at XII, pierced gilt-metal hands, with rubbed retail signature for TIFFANY...& CO. PARIS & ..., white enamel rectangular dial overlaid with an engraved gilt mask with concave angled panel below showing rings for day, alarm and date, the movement viewing glass engraved with a presentaion inscription Hon. Richard Mott, from Annette W.W. Hicks. Dec. 25th 1875, with large high quality silvered platform to the bimetallic balance with lever escapement, strike/repeat/alarm on two gongs to the backplate numbered 11452, with three-position selection lever to the base
8¼in. (21cm.) high

Provenance

Richard Mott was born in Mamaronneck, New York, in 1804. A businessman, he was elected mayor of Toledo in 1845. Subsequently he played an active part in the anti-slavery lobby and entered Congress for the session 1855-56, serving two terms. During the latter part of his life he continued his career in banking. He died in January 1888.
The present clock is sold with a volume of valedictory addresses - MEMORIAL EXERCISES OF THE TOLEDO NEW CENTURY CLUB published a month after Richard Mott's death by his fellow club members.

Sold Sotheby's New York, 13 June 1994, lot 517.

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
A very similar giant carriage clock, by Drocourt, is illustrated in Derek Roberts Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks Schiffer 1993, page 216, fig.13-15.

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