Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A FRENCH GILT BRASS REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK

LATE 19TH CENTURY

the brass, eight day movement with repeat and alarm mechanisms, the platform lever escapement striking the half hours on a gong, the backplate stamped with the serial number '1848', the circular enamelled dial with black Roman numerals and subsidiary alarm dial inside a silvered frame with scrolling foliate decoration, in a gorge case with bevelled glass panels and a hinged handle, with a burgundy leather bound travelling case gilt stamped '6064' to the base (2)

13cm high

Provenance

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House