Lot 37
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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND BRECHE VIOLETTE MARBLE MONTH-GOING CALENDRICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK WITH MOONPHASE
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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND BRECHE VIOLETTE MARBLE MONTH-GOING CALENDRICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK WITH MOONPHASE

VERNEUIL JEUNE, HORLOGER MECANICIEN. CIRCA 1820

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND BRECHE VIOLETTE MARBLE MONTH-GOING CALENDRICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK WITH MOONPHASE
Verneuil Jeune, Horloger Mecanicien. Circa 1820
With ormolu bezel and engine-turned demi-cover to the blue and white enamel rolling moonphase dial decorated with gilt stars, calibrated for its age to the border, with white enamel Roman chapter ring signed Verneuil J.ne H.ger Mecanicien, with Arabic quarters and gilt lozenge five minute markers, with engine-turned ormolu centre and blued steel moon hands, two subsidiary annular enamel dials below with conforming ormolu bezels and also with ormolu slips to their cut-out centres, the first indicating the date to its outside, the inner ring indicating the day and corresponding deity via a double-ended hand, the second dial showing the month and giving its corresponding sign of the zodiac (damaged), the circular movement plates secured by four back-pinned pillars, with twin going barrels and external countwheel strike on a bell positioned on the backplate, the going train with pinwheel escapement regulated by a gridiron pendulum hanging from the front plate with knife-edge suspension and adjustable crutch-piece, the movement supported by twin inverted Y-shaped plates rising from rectangular section plinths applied to the front with lyre mounts and further raised on stepped bases with lanceolate leaf cast galleries, on a rectangular breche violette marble plinth with canted angles; in a brass-framed glass display case, with door to the rear and on mahogany base with brass-lined upper surface
23 2/3in. (60cm.) high, the display case -- 28in. (71cm.) high
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Schiffer 1989, p.60, figs.46a, b.
Verneuil Jeune, Paris, recorded at Rue du Contrat Social 1806, Faubourg St-Martin 1815.
Verneuil specialised in exceptional skeleton clocks, all of which bear a close family resemblance. Of varying complexity, they mostly include calendar work which is laid out in a similar way. Some have silvered dials and some white enamel as on the present example, and the majority rest on marble plinths.

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