Antique Pierre Jaquet Droz Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 11/11/2001
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Gilt brass and enamel, two singing bird hanging cage with a center-seconds clock beneath, 12-stream fountain, playing four tunes on demand or changing automatically on the hour. Attributed to Jaquet-Droz, Geneva, circa 1780. Timekeeper with 5 Complications, Attributed to Jaquet-Droz, Geneva, circa 1780. Extremely rare and very fine gilt brass and enamel, two singing bird hanging cage with a center-seconds clock beneath, 12-stream fountain, playing four tunes on demand or changing automatically on the hour. C. Gilt brass cage, square base with canted corners, each side with a finely painted on enamel medallions with flower vase, bay-leaf ormolu frame with applied ormolu flower stems, light brown background, one medallion hinged for the winding aperture, panel to the right with activating pull cord and lever for singing/silent change, canted corners with gilt brass vase with flowers and loose hanging straight handles, center architectural fence panels with tops pierced and engraved with flowers andtylized foliage, gilt wire top centered by gilt flower bud with hinged ring loop. Inside in the center an animated fountain with 12 twisted glass streams stemming from a gilt decorated bowl with floral capital, flanked by two nightingales sitting on both sides of gilt bar, each turning around, with animated wings, beak and tail. Base fitted with the dial, reeded bezel, foliate decoration in the corners around the ball and paw feet. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions wth five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary regulating dial. Gilt brass "fleur-de-lis" hands.Singing bird movement: brass, two tier, fusee and chain, large barrel for long duration, four-arm fly governor with worm and wheel transmission driving pinned cylinder with 16 levers, 12 for same number of pipes, 4 for bellows and birds animations, birds playing in duets, singing changes automatically.Clock movement: brass, rectangular full plate with cylindrical pillars secured by pins, going barrel, verge escapement, plain three-arm brass balance with blued steel balance spring, two-footed skeletonized cock with four spokes, rack and pinion regulator. Dim. Height 52 cm, width 28 cm.

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