Lot 1209
  • 1209

A large Swiss Louis XVI ormolu mounted Vernis Martin quarter repeating musical bracket clock last quarter 18th century

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • height 149cm
30-cm enamel dial with Arabic numerals and inner date marking, pierced brass hands, steel sweep seconds and date pointer, movement with pinwheel escapement and silk suspended pendulum, pierced countwheel quarter striking on two bells, and pull quarter repeating on two bells, a separate fusee and chain musical mechanism playing with twentyfivehammers on twelve bells at will, shaped case adorned with flowers on a blue ground surmounted by an ormolu foliate scroll, further foliate mounts to the sides, the shaped glazed door with a mount showing a stag hunt, shaped base raised on scroll feet, together with a matching ogee shaped bracket