A very unusual gilt bronze table or mantel clock with calendar, phases of the moon and retrograde displays, 8 day time and strike pendule a Paris movement signed Pons on front plate, snake form bezel and silvered Roman numeral dial with aperture below center showing retrograde seconds, aperture in case front with scalloped edge displaying retrograde date, a round aperture below trimmed with gilt leaves and flowers showing phases of the moon, the moon disc painted with a smiling face and backed by a dark blue enamel sky with stars, these displays flanked by swans and cornucopias and other Grecian ornaments, the base with 3 silvered dials with scalloped edges, showing day of the week, date, and month, all dials with blued steel hands, the whole on rectangular feet, France c1825
Origin and period
France
Name
M166 Tabel/mantel clock calendar, moon phases retrograde displays, 8 day time and strike pendule a Paris movement signed Pons on front plate
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