c.1885 French Gilt-Bronze Carriage Clock with Limoge Panels.
Carriage /
French
Inv. #: f210
Circa: 1885
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Case
The gilt-bronze case has an elaborately molded base, fluted Corinthian columns to the corners, a ridged, hinged handle and superb polychrome limoge panels to three sides that depict medieval huntsmen with their hounds set within landscapes with applied gilt highlights.
Dial
The dial, set behind a beveled glass, has elaborate floral scrolling and a small boy blowing a horn before a castle on a hilltop. The hour dial has gilt Roman numerals for the hours and decorative gilt hands. The subsidiary alarm dial has a gilt indicator hand and shows one through twelve in Arabic hour markers.
Movement
The eight-day time, strike and alarm movement has the hour repeat button above, is wound and set off the backplate, has all the engraved indications in English, is numbered, '4670' and still retains the original lever platform.
Ref: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">For additional examples of Limoge carriage clocks see: 'Carriage Clocks' by Derek Roberts, 186.</span>
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