ROBERT ET COURVOISIER, LATE 18TH CENTURY
细节
A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND WHITE MARBLE QUARTER-CHIMING MANTLE CLOCK
robert et courvoisier, late 18th century
The circular white enamel Arabic dial signed Robert et Courvoisier, elaborate pierced ormolu hands, outer star minute markers and inner hour chapters separated by a narrow blue enamel band decorated with gilt foliage and inscribed Le Temps Passe et Nous avec Lui, the circular twin-barrel movement with four back-pinned pillars, anchor escapement with silk-suspended sunburst pendulum, countwheel quarter strike on two bells on the backplate with visible polished steel rack work, the case surmounted by a white marble urn with black marble pedestal and filled with ormolu flowers, the dial suspended between two flanking columns applied with ormolu flower-filled torcheres, foliate ormolu apron beneath the dial centered by a porcelain cameo, the rectangular plinth with a foliate ormolu frieze and on milled toupie feet
21¾in. (55cm.) high
robert et courvoisier, late 18th century
The circular white enamel Arabic dial signed Robert et Courvoisier, elaborate pierced ormolu hands, outer star minute markers and inner hour chapters separated by a narrow blue enamel band decorated with gilt foliage and inscribed Le Temps Passe et Nous avec Lui, the circular twin-barrel movement with four back-pinned pillars, anchor escapement with silk-suspended sunburst pendulum, countwheel quarter strike on two bells on the backplate with visible polished steel rack work, the case surmounted by a white marble urn with black marble pedestal and filled with ormolu flowers, the dial suspended between two flanking columns applied with ormolu flower-filled torcheres, foliate ormolu apron beneath the dial centered by a porcelain cameo, the rectangular plinth with a foliate ormolu frieze and on milled toupie feet
21¾in. (55cm.) high