99th Auction
2019/5/11
Lot 348
Jean-Baptiste Hanset à Bruxelles, Diameter 130 mm, circa 1800
A decorative quarter repeating carriage clock with "Petite Sonnerie" and alarm in its original leather-covered travelling box
Case: brass, gilt. Dial: enamel. Movm.: circular brass full plate movement, chain/fusee, 3 barrels, 4 hammers / 2 gongs, three-arm brass balance.
The striking mechanism strikes the full hours at every half hour, with the hammer alternating between the two gongs. The cord suspension, however, strikes the full hours and the quarters with two hammers.
Jean-Baptiste Hanset and his brother J. Jh. Hanset were clockmakers working in Brussels around 1800.
A decorative quarter repeating carriage clock with "Petite Sonnerie" and alarm in its original leather-covered travelling box
Case: brass, gilt. Dial: enamel. Movm.: circular brass full plate movement, chain/fusee, 3 barrels, 4 hammers / 2 gongs, three-arm brass balance.
The striking mechanism strikes the full hours at every half hour, with the hammer alternating between the two gongs. The cord suspension, however, strikes the full hours and the quarters with two hammers.
Jean-Baptiste Hanset and his brother J. Jh. Hanset were clockmakers working in Brussels around 1800.
estimated
8.000—12.000 €
Price realized
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