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Details
A French Limoges enamel-mounted gilt and silvered brass petite sonnerie carriage clock, circa 1885
The anglaise riche case with Corinthian capitals and ripple cornices, plain mask to the recessed Roman chapter ring, blued steel hands, mounted with unusual polychrome enamel side panels depicting respectively a figure in Renaissance costume playing chess and another seated in a hall chair playing with a bilboquet, solid rear door with shuttered winding holes, the eight day twin barrel movement with silvered platform to bimetallic balance with lever escapement, strike/repeat on two gongs to the backplate numbered 893 -- 7in. (18cm.) high
The anglaise riche case with Corinthian capitals and ripple cornices, plain mask to the recessed Roman chapter ring, blued steel hands, mounted with unusual polychrome enamel side panels depicting respectively a figure in Renaissance costume playing chess and another seated in a hall chair playing with a bilboquet, solid rear door with shuttered winding holes, the eight day twin barrel movement with silvered platform to bimetallic balance with lever escapement, strike/repeat on two gongs to the backplate numbered 893 -- 7in. (18cm.) high
Provenance
French Carriage Clocks from an Important Private Collection, Christie's South Kensington, 3 July 1997, lot 16.
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