TARAULT JEUNE, CIRCA 1830
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A CHARLES X ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING TABLE REGULATOR WITH COUP PERDU ESCAPEMENT
tarault jeune, circa 1830
The dial within a glazed foliate-cast gilt bezzel, the white enamel Roman chapter ring with blued moon hands and counterpoised blued steel sweep center seconds hand, the engine-turned gilt center signed on the cartouche Tarault Jeune, the robust movement with circular plates and four-back pinned pillars, twin going barrels, coup perdu escapement planted on the backplate, fine adjustment to the crutch piece for the knife-edge suspended gridiron pendulum with large gilt bob and calibrated rating nut, countwheel strike on bell, the plinth case with stepped top and glazed sides, the front pilasters with ormolu capitals cast with foliage and hour-glasses
10¼in. (51.5cm.)
tarault jeune, circa 1830
The dial within a glazed foliate-cast gilt bezzel, the white enamel Roman chapter ring with blued moon hands and counterpoised blued steel sweep center seconds hand, the engine-turned gilt center signed on the cartouche Tarault Jeune, the robust movement with circular plates and four-back pinned pillars, twin going barrels, coup perdu escapement planted on the backplate, fine adjustment to the crutch piece for the knife-edge suspended gridiron pendulum with large gilt bob and calibrated rating nut, countwheel strike on bell, the plinth case with stepped top and glazed sides, the front pilasters with ormolu capitals cast with foliage and hour-glasses
10¼in. (51.5cm.)