JACQUES PANIER À PARIS, CIRCA 1720
细节
A R©GENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK
jacques panier à paris, circa 1720
The circular foliate-cast gilt dial with individual white enamel Roman and Arabic chapter cartouches, finely sculpted blued steel hands, the central enamel signature plaque signed Jacques Panier à Paris, the movement with rectangular plates secured with five back-pinned baluster pillars, verge escapement with silk-suspended pendulum, calibrated countwheel strike on bell above, the backplate engraved with a repeat signature, the case chevron-veneered with kingwood and decorated with foliate ormolu mounts, the waisted glazed door with central ormolu music-playing figure, the concave-molded top surmounted by a figure of Mercury; with a concave-molded bracket en suite decorated with similar ormolu mounts and veneered in parquetry
54in. (137cm.) high
jacques panier à paris, circa 1720
The circular foliate-cast gilt dial with individual white enamel Roman and Arabic chapter cartouches, finely sculpted blued steel hands, the central enamel signature plaque signed Jacques Panier à Paris, the movement with rectangular plates secured with five back-pinned baluster pillars, verge escapement with silk-suspended pendulum, calibrated countwheel strike on bell above, the backplate engraved with a repeat signature, the case chevron-veneered with kingwood and decorated with foliate ormolu mounts, the waisted glazed door with central ormolu music-playing figure, the concave-molded top surmounted by a figure of Mercury; with a concave-molded bracket en suite decorated with similar ormolu mounts and veneered in parquetry
54in. (137cm.) high