Antique French or France Shelf Desk or Table Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 10/14/2001
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Catalog Description:

Rare gilt metal single hand small hour-striking horizontal table clock. French, circa 1670. Unsigned, French, circa 1670.Rare gilt metal single hand small hour-striking horizontal table clock. C. Square with oval windows on each side, extended moldings on top and bottom, dolphin-head feet, hinged and florally engraved base panel with aperture for bell. D. Silver applied ring with Roman hour chapter and outer 12-minute divisions, set on florally engraved gilt brass dial plate. Single blued steel "fleur de lis" hand. M. Square,56 x 56 mm, brass full plate with square columns, fusee and chain, verge escapement, now with plain three-arm balance and flat balance-spring, trefoil balance cock secured by a screw, pierced and engraved with wild strawberries, fixed barrel for striking, count wheel on the back plate, striking by a single hammer on a bell set in the case base. Dim. 8 x 8 cm.

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