拍品 179
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A French small gilt-brass and champlevé enamel striking and repeating carriage clock with alarm and sweep centre seconds

NO.4663. LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A French small gilt-brass and champlevé enamel striking and repeating carriage clock with alarm and sweep centre seconds
no.4663. last quarter 19th century
The anglaise riche case decorated overall with polychrome enamel and with split pearls to the friezes and pilasters, glazed sides, the gilt Roman dial within split pearl bezel, pierced blued hour and minute hands with sweep centre seconds, conforming alarm dial below, both within a polychrome enamel mask, the twin barrel movement with silvered platform to the bimetallic balance with lever escapement, strike/repeat/alarm on backplate numbered 4663; with mauve plush velvet travelling case
4½in. (11.5cm.) high

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
A very similar clock is illustrated in Joseph Fanelli and Charles Terwilliger A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks Clock Trade Enterprises 1987, p.122.