Antique Jean Francois Joly Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 4/13/2002
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Catalog Description:

Giovanni Francesco Gioly (Jean Francois Joly), Roma, dated 1693. Extremely rare and very fine small ebonized quarter-repeating bracket clock with early balance and straight balance spring. C C. Molded base on bun feet, tapered top, hinged front and back doors. D. gilt brass ring with champleve radial Roman numerals, inner quarter-hour divisions, outer minute divisions with five-minute Arabic figures set on dark blue velvet, each corner with pierced and engraved applique decorated with stylized foliage and finished with fleur de lis. Gilt pierced hands. M. Rectangular, 64 x 74 mm, gilt brass, baluster pillars, fusee and cat-gut, verge escapement, four-arm steel balance with straight hog's bristle balance spring, whose length is regulated by micrometric screw regulator set on two-footed large (56 mm o) solid cock decorated with engraved flowers, pull repeat, repeating hours on the bell mounted on the top of the movement and quarters on the one mounted below the movement. Signed on the movement. Dim. Height 29 cm, base width 17 cm.

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