FEBRUARY ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 27 February 2018 - 9:00 AM start
A small French skeleton clock
Realised: $1,300 plus premium
Lot Details
A-frame plates with both glazed enamel dial and back plate signed 'Pierret a Paris' (i.e. Victor Athanase Pierret), and blade-shaped brass pendulum with silk suspension, oval glass dome and ebonised oval wood base with inlaid brass stringing. An alarm with engraved brass numbered wheel at the dial centre and pivoted bronze bell in the base is set and wound by cords leading out to either side of the base. Overall height including dome 260. Honourable mention at Paris and London Exhibitions 1851.
