A fire-gilt bronze with white marble Louis Seize mantel clock Guenoux à Paris

A fire-gilt bronze with white marble Louis Seize mantel clock Guenoux à Paris

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Offered by Cor van der Heijden Private Collection Antique Clocks



A fire-gilt bronze with white marble Louis Seize mantel clock Guenoux à Paris A fire-gilt bronze with white marble Louis Seize mantel clock Guenoux à Paris A fire-gilt bronze with white marble Louis Seize mantel clock Guenoux à Paris A fire-gilt bronze with white marble Louis Seize mantel clock Guenoux à Paris

A fire-gilt bronze with white marble Louis XVI Pendulum. Signed "Guenoux à Paris". Stylized lion heads on the sides and a top of a fire vase.

Description

A fire-gilt bronze with white marble Louis XVI Pendulum. Signed "Guenoux à Paris"

Dial

The 13.5 cm white enamel dial has Roman hour numerals surrounded by minute divisions and Arabic minute numerals every five minutes. Beautiful stylized and engraved openwork hands.

Movement

Eight-day barrel powered large platinum movement. Pendulum with silk suspension. Bubbles in full on the hour and once on the half hour by means of a locking disc.

Housing

A very fine ormolu, stylized bronze and white marble case. Stylized lion heads on the sides and a top of a fire vase. In the white marble base a fire-gilt bronze frieze with flowers and resting on four round bronze spherical legs. The pendulum is of excellent top quality.

Origin
France, Paris
Period
Louis XVI, around 1770.
Material
Bronze, Gilded bronze, enamel, Marble
Signature
Guenoux à Paris
Reference
100-15
Sizes
42.5 x 24.3 x 14.9 cm

Offered by

Cor van der Heijden Private Collection Antique Clocks

't Hofke 26
5374 HE Schaijk
The Netherlands

+31(0)6 51 169 169
http://www.clocksantique.nl

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