32,200 CHF
Le Coeur L'aine a Paris, circa 1793. Very fine and rare small white marble and o rmolu, eight day going, decimal and duo-decimal clock with republican calendar and decades. In form of a pyramid, a gilt-brass ball at the top, set on four paws and with applied gilt-bronze decoration of pearls, foliage, ribbon knots and musical instruments. The rectangular base with four gilt bronze bun-feet, applied with wreath of laurel. Gilt-brass full plate with going barrel, anchor escapement, short pendulum with silk suspension. Signed on the dial. Dim. 36 x 19 x 10 cm. Notes Decimal clocks are very rare, even more so with indication of decimal minutes and Republican calendar with the decades. Certainly specially commissioned to be set on a "secrC( ire", since no other small decimal clock of this type is known to exist.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-04-18
