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AN EMPIRE-STYLE BRASS, MARBLE AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED WEIGHT DRIVEN AND CALENDRICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK
Lot 534

AN EMPIRE-STYLE BRASS, MARBLE AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED WEIGHT DRIVEN AND CALENDRICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK

RECENT BUT INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS

Closed28 September 2010

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GBP 18,125

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AN EMPIRE-STYLE BRASS, MARBLE AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED WEIGHT DRIVEN AND CALENDRICAL STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK
RECENT BUT INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS
Main chapter ring inscribed 'LEPAUTE A PARIS', subsidiaries below for months, the seasons, day and date, blued steel hands, twin weight for time train with pinwheel escapement and going barrel for countwheel strike on bell, under four light shade; pendulum, two brass weights, winding key
22 in. (56 cm.) high, excluding shade

Specialist note

This clock is illustrated in Tardy, French Clocks The World Over Part II: From Louis XVI style to Louis XVIII-Charles X period, Paris, 1981, p.324, where it is described as Empire-period. A further clock of related design, signed 'Goutte à Lyon, is illustrated, P. Kjellberg, L'Encyclopedie de La Pendule Francaise, Paris, 1997, p. 315, fig. A.