BETTEMBOST À PARIS, CIRCA 1820
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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU ASTRONOMICAL MONTH-GOING PORTICO CLOCK
bettembost à paris, circa 1820
The white enamel Roman chapter disc within an ormolu bezel cast with egg-and-dart decoration, the dial with blued moon hands and counterpoised sweep center seconds hand, the enamelled rolling moon face calibrated with its age [1 to 29½], signed above VI Bettembost à Paris, subsidiary skeletonized white enamel calendar rings below with blued steel hands indicating the month, day of week with its relative sign and date, the movement with circular plates and four back-pinned pillars, pin-wheel escapement mounted on the backplate with steel knife-edge suspended gridiron pendulum, countwheel strike on bell, the finely cast portico case with ribbon and rosette mount to the entablature beneath the stepped top supported on plain ormolu columns, the rectangular base with stylized foliate molding and on large milled bun feet
20¼in. (51.5cm.) high
bettembost à paris, circa 1820
The white enamel Roman chapter disc within an ormolu bezel cast with egg-and-dart decoration, the dial with blued moon hands and counterpoised sweep center seconds hand, the enamelled rolling moon face calibrated with its age [1 to 29½], signed above VI Bettembost à Paris, subsidiary skeletonized white enamel calendar rings below with blued steel hands indicating the month, day of week with its relative sign and date, the movement with circular plates and four back-pinned pillars, pin-wheel escapement mounted on the backplate with steel knife-edge suspended gridiron pendulum, countwheel strike on bell, the finely cast portico case with ribbon and rosette mount to the entablature beneath the stepped top supported on plain ormolu columns, the rectangular base with stylized foliate molding and on large milled bun feet
20¼in. (51.5cm.) high