a swiss engraved gilt-brass and limoges enamel-mounted mignonnette striking and repeating carriage clock

NO.626. CIRCA 1890

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a swiss engraved gilt-brass and limoges enamel-mounted mignonnette striking and repeating carriage clock
no.626. circa 1890
The anglaise style case with Limoges enamel panels to sides and rear door depicting Renaissance hunting scenes, a youth with his dog blowing a hunting horn to left side, a lady on horseback with falcon to the rear, a lady standing beside a tree with a falcon to right side, the dial with gilt Roman chapter ring above scene of two squirese carrying a deer on a pole, with a castle behind them, silvered lever platform to bimetallic balance, strike/repeat on gong to the backplate, wound through barrel to base, stamped 626 twice to underside; case re-gilt
3in. (7.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

The panels on the present clock are typical of the high quality Limoges enamels being used on carriage clocks at the end of the 19th century. Renaissance figures - especially in the guise of the hunt - were particularly popular, as this and the following two lots demonstrate, with enamellers consciously harking back to the earliest days of their art. A very similar example is illustrated in Fanelli & Terwilliger Fine Carriage Clocks, Clock Trade Enterprises, New York 1987, pp.196-197.

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