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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY CLOCK AND BAROMETER
Lot 302

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY CLOCK AND BAROMETER

HENRY DASSON ET CIE, PARIS, DATED 1890

Fermé23 March 2017

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GBP 12,500

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY CLOCK AND BAROMETER
HENRY DASSON ET CIE, PARIS, DATED 1890
The clock case surmounted by Father Time, with aneroid barometer movement by Richard Freres No. 19616, 'PLUVIEUX - CHANGEANT - BEAUTEMPS', with an alcohol thermometer to trunk, signed to side 'henry Dasson et Cie 1890', the twin barrel movement with Brocot regulation, stamped to backplate 'S. Marti'
53 in. (134.6 cm.) high; 10 in. (25.4 cm.) wide; 5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 November 2014, lot 169.

Note du spécialiste

A model of this barometer with dial signed 'Gaudron à Paris', the case attributed to André-Charles Boulle, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, p. 49, fig. 1.5.3.