Lot 95
95
Various Properties
A SWISS GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED RED TORTOISESHELL BRACKET CLOCK by Pierre Jaquet Droz, with circular scallop dial with Roman and Arabic numerals above a plaque engraved with foliate-scrolls and inscribed P. Jaquet Droz à la Chauxdefonds en Suisse, the shaped case inlaid with brass scrolls and decorated with pierced, scrolled foliate-mounts, the hinged door decorated with a winged putto, the cresting with a figure of Father Time on pierced scrolled feet, the tapering bracket decorated with foliate-scrolls, mid-18th Century, with pendulum, key and winder, restorations

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A SWISS GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED RED TORTOISESHELL BRACKET CLOCK by Pierre Jaquet Droz, with circular scallop dial with Roman and Arabic numerals above a plaque engraved with foliate-scrolls and inscribed P. Jaquet Droz à la Chauxdefonds en Suisse, the shaped case inlaid with brass scrolls and decorated with pierced, scrolled foliate-mounts, the hinged door decorated with a winged putto, the cresting with a figure of Father Time on pierced scrolled feet, the tapering bracket decorated with foliate-scrolls, mid-18th Century, with pendulum, key and winder, restorations
the clock: 22½in. (57cm.) wide; 45in. (114cm.) high
the clock and bracket: 62in. (157cm.) high

Lot Essay

Pierre Jaquet Droz (1721-1790), specialized in mechanical gadgets, with agents in Basle, Neuchatel, Paris, Geneva and Madrid.

A closely related bracket clock by David Robert, La Chaux-de-Fonds (brother-in-law of Pierre Jaquet Droz), in the Musée International d'Horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, is illustrated in Tardy, French Clocks, Clocks the World Over, Paris, 1985, p. 41

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