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AN EMPIRE EBONY-INLAID AND BRONZE-MOUNTED SATINWOOD MONTH-GOING TABLE REGULATOR
Lory, paris, circa 1810
The dial with Arabic outer silvered seconds ring with counterpoised blued steel hand, eccentric Roman hour and minute silvered chapter disc with blued moon hands, the gilt center with visible coup perdu escapement with steel 'scapewheel having batton posted teeth, the movement with large rectangular plates secured by four conical pillars with blued screws to the front plate and pinned to the backplate, twin going barrels, fine adjustment to the crutch for the high quality grid-iron pendulum with flared top, countwheel strike on bell, the movement resting on a gilt-brass bracket supported on four columns and unusually secured to the case by means of two steel bolts accessible via the detachable stepped top revealing brass knobs for the sliding front and rear glasses, the front applied with bronze Egyptian caryatids on ebony-inlaid pedestals, the ebony line inlaid base with a simple skirt
19¾in. (50cm.) high