55,200 CHF
"Day and Night" Attributed to Jaquet Droz à la Chaux de Fonds. Made circa 1780. Very fine and extremely rare two-dialled, ebonised wood, gilt bronze, painted on enamel and tole peinte table clock with day and night dials and quarter striking. Rectangular, ebonised, outset cornersflanked by gilt bronze fluted corinthianpillasters raised on fielded plinths,moulded base, block feet, three side basepanels set with a guilloche flowerheadmount, tole peint side door panels deco-ratedwith with a swagged neo-classicallidded urn, broken-arch pediment with abalustraded gallery, corner plinths, six urnfinials, central "chimney" in the form of atent with a hinged scew-down canopy andwith an acanthus and berry finial. Daytime dial: White enamel, radialRoman numerals, outer minute track andArabic five minute numerals, hinged andglazed bezel, polished arch-top mask setwith an oval polychrome enamel depict-inga flute playing shepherdess and herbeau in a pastoral landscape, mountedwithin a cast and chased palm, swag andtasselled gilt-brass cartouche. Pierced giltbrass "Louis" hands. Nightime dial: arch-top,polished, pierced radial Romannumerals, dot quarter markers and crosshalf-hour markers, dot and arcaded outerborder, the centre with a rotating discpierced with a single hour-hand to indi-catethe time, mask pierced with scrollsand foliage in the pattern of a waistedclock case, foliate pieced panel below. Rectangular polished brass plates, 147x 131 mm., turned pillars, two largespri
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-05-15
