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PIERRE PIAGET AROME. MOVEMENT CIRCA 1700, DIAL AND CASE OF LATER DATE
Details
A carved and cross-banded walnut night clock
Pierre Piaget ARome. Movement circa 1700, dial and case of later date
The movement with circular plates and four back-pinned baluster pillars, gut fusee and capped spring barrel, verge escapement with pierced balance cock and baluster-form foot, copper dial painted with Chronos with pierced quarter hours above the revolving hour circlets, the case with out-set moulded base with carved trusses flanking a D-ended pendulum glass beneath the dial flanked with carved flower husks beneath a demi-lune pediment surmounted by further carved husks and scrolls
28¾in. (73cm.) high
Pierre Piaget ARome. Movement circa 1700, dial and case of later date
The movement with circular plates and four back-pinned baluster pillars, gut fusee and capped spring barrel, verge escapement with pierced balance cock and baluster-form foot, copper dial painted with Chronos with pierced quarter hours above the revolving hour circlets, the case with out-set moulded base with carved trusses flanking a D-ended pendulum glass beneath the dial flanked with carved flower husks beneath a demi-lune pediment surmounted by further carved husks and scrolls
28¾in. (73cm.) high
Provenance
Bought from a Swiss dealer in 1990
Special notice
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