A FINE ENGRAVED GILT BRASS CANNELEE CASED REPEATING CARRIAGE...

Estimate

£3,000 - £5,000

A FINE ENGRAVED GILT BRASS CANNELEE CASED REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH CLOISONNE ENAMEL PANELSUNSIGNED, PARIS, CIRCA 1880The two train eight-day gong striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement regulated by sprung bimetallic balance, the backplate stamped with serial number 222 to lower left hand corner, the rectangular gilt brass and champleve enamelled dial with powder-blue ground polychrome rosette infill to centre within gilt Roman numeral chapter ring, with gilt spade hands over conforming symmetrical foliate scrolls to lower apron and further motifs to upper spandrel areas within a geometric panel-band outer border, the case with hinged faceted carrying handle over oval top glass within fine leafy scroll engraved surround, repeating scroll motif decorated cavetto moulding and leafy trail engraved channel-moulded uprights, the sides inset with further panels enamelled in the Hispano-Moresque style with symmetrical polychrome leafy scrolls into a powder blue ground within repeating panel border, the rear with glazed pin-hinged door, on ogee moulded skirt base finely engraved with further symmetrical leafy scrollwork.15cm (6ins) high with handle down, 9.5cm (3.75ins) wide, 8.5cm (3.375ins) deep.A very closely related clock to the present example, stamped for Drocourt, Paris, was sold in these rooms FINE CLOCKS, BAROMETERS & SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Thursday 2nd March 2022 (lot 177) for £4,000 hammer. Indeed, the panels of this other example were of identical pattern to those of the current lot, but were executed with a with cobalt blue ground rather than turquoise.