A Directoire ormolu, enamel and white marble skeleton clock with calendar
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A Directoire ormolu, enamel and white marble skeleton clock with calendar

FOLIN L'AINÉ, PARIS, CIRCA 1790-1795

已结束2012年12月13日

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EUR 25,000

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A Directoire ormolu, enamel and white marble skeleton clock with calendar
Folin l'Ainé, Paris, circa 1790-1795
The case of typical form, the chapter ring with Arabic numberals, pierced ormolu hands, signed on a separate cartouche L'AINÉ A PARIS, flanked by subsidiary rings indicating date and day of week, each with pierced ormolu hand, on arched support, marble plinth centred by an acorn-finial, with sunburst pendulum; pendulum and winding key
32.5 cm. high

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Nicolas-Alexandre Folin, maître in 1784, is recorded working in Paris circa 1790-1795.

A comparable clock by Folin is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopdie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 320, ill. A.
A similar clock by Folin was sold Sotheby's New York, Important French Furniture, sale 8362 9 November 2007, lot 152, 43,000 USD. And in these salerooms, 15 December 2009, lot 415, 39,400 EURO.