Exceptionnelle Pendule squelette à Complications. - Lot 518

Lot n° 518
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Exceptionnelle Pendule squelette à Complications. - Lot 518
Exceptionnelle Pendule squelette à Complications. Resting on four griffins, each with two snakes pointing their tongues towards a barrel and separated by the pendulum, with compensation and graduation, engraved with the words "hot, tempered, cold". The upper part has two superimposed dials. The lower one, circular in shape, showing the 8-day striking movement, has five hands. The hour and minute hands are finished with a fleur-de-lys, while the three others indicate seconds, dates and days of the week, in blued steel. The smallest dial displays the phases of the moon, the star moving in a starry sky covering a tree-lined landscape with houses and a bridge in the distance. The upper part has a graduation from one to twenty-nine and a half. Brass, steel, finely chiselled and gilded bronze with mercury and polychrome enamels. Terrace in portor marble resting on six small bell-shaped feet. Parisian work from the period 1795-1805. Height : 70.5 cm - Length : 41 cm - Depth : 15.5 cm. Provenance: Acquired in Paris - Drouot, Pierre Bergé et associés, December 21, 2006. Previously: Collection of the Castle of Bessinge (Switzerland). Literature: Tardy "Les plus belles pendules françaises". 1994, page 326.