Lot Essay
When this clock was made Denière is recorded in Rue d'Orléans, Paris (1820-1840).
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DENIÈRE. CIRCA 1830
Details
A Charles X large ormolu striking portico clock with sweep seconds and date
Denière. Circa 1830
The case with stepped top with egg and dart and dentil mouldings and with acanthus and anthemion cast mouldings to the plinth, raised on four milled feet, the white enamel Roman dial with outer concentric date ring, signed DENIERE/Fab. de Bronzes, blued steel Breguet hands, arrow date hand and counter-poised sweep seconds, the twin barrels movement with pinwheel escapement and countwheel strike on bell; knife-edge suspended gridiron pendulum, key
23½ in. (59 cm.) high
Denière. Circa 1830
The case with stepped top with egg and dart and dentil mouldings and with acanthus and anthemion cast mouldings to the plinth, raised on four milled feet, the white enamel Roman dial with outer concentric date ring, signed DENIERE/Fab. de Bronzes, blued steel Breguet hands, arrow date hand and counter-poised sweep seconds, the twin barrels movement with pinwheel escapement and countwheel strike on bell; knife-edge suspended gridiron pendulum, key
23½ in. (59 cm.) high
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