A French brass and porcelain-mounted striking and repeating carriage clock

NO.118. LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A French brass and porcelain-mounted striking and repeating carriage clock
no.118. last quarter 19th century
The anglaise riche case with with gilt capitals to the Corinthian columns, the porcelain side panels each painted with various vignettes against a cream ground decorated with gilt branches, one with central reserve painted with scene of a fisherman in a boat on a river, with one below depicting hens and another above showing a sailing boat, the other painted with central reserve of a woman beside the sea shore with sailing boats before her, the panel below also depicting laying hens and the one above a riverscape, the conforming dial also with several vignettes and painted with a gilt Roman chapter ring, blued hands, the twin barrel movement with silvered platform to the bimetallic balance, strike/repeat on gong to the backplate numbered 118
6.2/3in. (17cm.) high

Lot Essay

The style of decoration on this clock shows an interesting combination of Eastern and Western influences. Whilst the subjects of the vignettes are undoubtedly European, the manner in which they are presented owes much to the japonaiserie style. Similar panels may be seen on bambu carriage clocks illustrated in Derek Roberts Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks Schiffer 1993, p.119, figs7-6a,b and Joseph Fanelli and Charles Terwilliger A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks Clock Trade Enterprises, p.24.

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