Lot Essay
Germain-Claude Lory, le jeune is recorded working in the rue Montorgeuil between 1807-1813 and he specialized in complicated astronomical clocks.
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SIGNED LORY, PARIS, CIRCA 1810
Details
AN EMPIRE EBONY-INLAID AND BRONZE-MOUNTED SATINWOOD MONTH-GOING TABLE REGULATOR
Signed Lory, Paris, Circa 1810
The dial with Arabic outer silvered seconds ring with counterpoised blue-steel hand, eccentric Roman hour and minute silvered chapter disc with blued hands, the gilt center with coup-perdu escapement with steel 'scapewheel having batton posted teeth, the movement with large rectangular plates secured by four conical pillars with blew screws to the front plate and pinned to the back plate, 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
Signed Lory, Paris, Circa 1810
The dial with Arabic outer silvered seconds ring with counterpoised blue-steel hand, eccentric Roman hour and minute silvered chapter disc with blued hands, the gilt center with coup-perdu escapement with steel 'scapewheel having batton posted teeth, the movement with large rectangular plates secured by four conical pillars with blew screws to the front plate and pinned to the back plate, 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
Provenance
Collection of C. de Jonge, Chazelles.
The Vitale Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 30 October 1996, lot 92.
The Vitale Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 30 October 1996, lot 92.