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A French engraved gilt-brass and porcelain-mounted striking and repeating carriage clock with alarm

DROCOURT, NO.22487, RETAILED BY HENRY CAPT. CIRCA 1885

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A French engraved gilt-brass and porcelain-mounted striking and repeating carriage clock with alarm
Drocourt, No.22487, retailed by Henry Capt. Circa 1885
The cannelee case engraved with leaves and foliate scrolls against a stipple ground, with bevelled oval viewing glass to the top, the sides mounted with porcelain side panels finely painted with figures of young ladies, within gilt borders and on Sèvres style blue reserves, each figure within a rustic setting and one with a flying owl to the foreground, the conforming dial decorated with blossoming leaves beside a lake, with Roman chapter ring and signed in the centre HENRY CAPT GENÈVE, blued steel hands, with alarm ring below, the twin barrel movement with silvered platform to a bimetallic balance with lever escapement, strike/repeat/alarm on gong to the back plate stamped for Drocourt, with punched repeat retail signature and numbered 22487, repeated twice to the base of the case
5¼in. (13.5cm.) high to hilt of handle

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Drocourt is amongst the finest, if not the finest, makers of French carriage clocks in the second half of the 19th Century. Pierre Drocourt was exhibiting carriage clocks in the 1860s and his son Alfred did so in the 1880s. The latter had workshops in Paris and Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont.
The porcelain panels on the present clock are of notably high quality. Although the panels are in the Sèvres style of porcelain by this time most porcelain factories had left the Paris region and it is probable they were produced in Limoges, where the skills required to hand paint panels persisted.

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