Antique French or France Shelf Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 10/15/2000
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Catalog Description:

Renaissance single hand table clock with hour-striking and alarm. French, circa 1550. French, circa 1550. Fine and rare Renaissance single hand table clock with hour-striking and alarm. C. Bronze, hexagonal, with panels engraved with figures representing the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, with a window to inspect the fusee to see how much the clock is wound, in the Mars panel. A pierced dome on top within a hexagonal crest, with masks and finials in between, on the bottom a figure representing the ground (Sol). D. Brass chapter ring with Roman numerals riveted to a brass panel with floral engraving, brass hour hand, iron alarm hand. M. Two tier with brass plate, round iron or steel baluster pillars at the bottom, straight on top, going train at top, striking and the alarm at the bottom, verge escapement with balance, sliding regulator for the tension springs, iron wheels and pinions, brass fusee cone and barrels, short three-wheel going train, striking and alarm on bell at the top of the movement, iron count wheel at the bottom. Dim. 14 cm. high, 8 cm. between the opposite walls.

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