A BELGIAN ORMOLU AND MARBLE ASTRONOMICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK

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A BELGIAN ORMOLU AND MARBLE ASTRONOMICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK
Sarton à Paris, circa 1795

the dial with 6¼in. ormolu foliate cast and beaded bezel framing the white enamel Roman and Arabic dial with concentric inner date ring and signed à Paris above VI, blued steel moon hands with counterpoised sweep centre seconds and serpentine date hand, subsidiary calendar rings below for day of week with their deities with serpentine arrow-head blued steel hand, the month ring with appropriate number of days and similar blued steel hand, lunar dial above with phase and age of moon, the four pillar twin going barrel movement with countwheel strike on bell above via hammer carried on vertically-positioned blued steel arbor, pinwheel escapement mounted on the backplate, the gridiron pendulum steel-suspended form a pivoted knife-edge block, the whole raised on two oromlu pillars and black marble D-ended plinth with ormolu toupie feet
19¾in. (50.2 cm.) high

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edward G. Aghit, Hubert Sarton of Liege, a Master Belgian Clockmaker, Antiquarian Horology, December, 1972, p.p. 42-54.

Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Schiffer, 1989, p.p. 171-184, figs. 172a, b, c.

拍品專文

Hubert Sarton (see notes for lot 335) most certainly made the present clock. Its unmistakable 4-dial format was a concept that he mastered and made his own style. An identical clock signed Sarton is illustrated in Continental and Amercian Skeleton Clocks, op. cit.