A walnut and ebonised night timepiece with calendar, Italian for the French market, circa 1700

A walnut and ebonised night timepiece with calendar, Italian for the French market

circa 1700

8¼-inch painted dial with time aperture and wandering hour numerals against a cloudy sky centred by Chronos, three subsidiary dials below for day, date and Lunar indication with date and flanked by figures representing day and night, the fusee movement with verge escapement, the restored case with broken-arch cresting and turned finial, moulded panels and moulded base

66cm, 26in high