105th Auction

2021/11/13

Lot 280

Kemp & Wilcox

An ornamental Parisian splendour baroque style carriage clock with half hour / hour strike

estimated
10.00015.000 €
Price realized
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specific features
Case
Bronze, firegilt and silvered, cast, glazed on four sides, handle decorated with volutes, four dolphin feet.
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
Rectangular brass full plate movement, keywind, 1 hammer / 1 gong, 2 barrels, platform with English lever escapement, screw compensation balance.
Diam.300 mm
Circa1890
Ctry.France


The case must have been extremely time consuming and expensive to produce, demanding numerous different and complex patterns for all the decoration such as the silver putti, volutes, shells and flowers on top and the mermen, the mermeids and dolphins surrounding the base. The separate base forms an integral part of the overall design.
The ornamentation was cast as an integral part of the case, a technique used on French clocks in general in the 18th and 19th centuries.