Fine Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 6th October 2022
Lot 380
A FRENCH PATINATED AND GILT BRONZE MYSTERY CLOCK
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £4500
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Description
A FRENCH PATINATED AND GILT BRONZE MYSTERY CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-EUGENE ROBERT-HOUDIN, PARIS, MID-19TH CENTURY
the four and a half inch glass dial with black Roman numerals and single gilt metal arrow hand inside a chromed bezel, on a scrolling bracket supported by griffins, the waisted case decorated with a cherub amongst scrolling foliage containing a brass, two train movement stamped 'Brevet d'Invention, Boilviller A Paris' and '61', striking on a bell, the back of the case also stamped'Brevet d'Invention', on a scrolling and shell foot and on a velvet topped giltwood plinth with shell and scrolling foliate decoration
41.5cm high
Literature
Derek Roberts, 'Mystery, Novelty & Fantasy Clocks', 1999, p 225, pl.19-7 for a similar second series 'standard glass dialled single handed mystery clock'.
Catalogue Note
For similar examples see Bonhams London, Fine Clocks, 9th July 2014, lot 159 and Bonhams New York, Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts, Clocks and Silver, 24th September 2012, lot 5268.