BLONDEAU À PARIS, CIRCA 1825
Details
A CHARLES X ORMOLU MOUNTED MAHOGANY MONTH-GOING PORTICO TABLE REGULATOR
blondeau à paris, circa 1825
The dial with finely cast palmette ormolu bezel to the silvered Roman dial with pierced blued steel hands and counterpoised sweep center seconds, the engine-turned center signed Blondeau À Paris on an oval reserve, the movement with circular plates and four robust back-pinned pillars, twin going barrels, pin wheel escapement mounted on the backplate with fine adjustment to the crutch piece, spring-suspended gridiron pendulum, countwheel strike on bell, the case with stepped and dentilled pediment supported on four well carved columns with finely-cast Ionic capitals, the rectangular base with a palmette and frond ormolu molding and on ormolu block feet
25¼in. (64cm.) high
blondeau à paris, circa 1825
The dial with finely cast palmette ormolu bezel to the silvered Roman dial with pierced blued steel hands and counterpoised sweep center seconds, the engine-turned center signed Blondeau À Paris on an oval reserve, the movement with circular plates and four robust back-pinned pillars, twin going barrels, pin wheel escapement mounted on the backplate with fine adjustment to the crutch piece, spring-suspended gridiron pendulum, countwheel strike on bell, the case with stepped and dentilled pediment supported on four well carved columns with finely-cast Ionic capitals, the rectangular base with a palmette and frond ormolu molding and on ormolu block feet
25¼in. (64cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquarian Horology, Autumn 1995, vol. 22, no. 3, p. 192.