DESCRIPTION:
Boyer, a Paris, an unusual, gilt bronze architectural clock with annular dial, the Neo Renaissance style case with buttressed square base, inset panels with foliate mounts, the front with central niche occupied by a female figure, flanking ornaments concealing the winding arbors, and the ends with foliate scrolls, surmounted by five graduated circular arcades, the lowest with eight columns surrounding four niches and supporting the enclosure for the silvered roman numeral dial, the next with eight pilasters and four buttress arches, and the last each with four pilasters, domed turrets and turned finial, two train pendule de Paris movement signed "Boyer a Paris", with offset suspension, unusual regulator, and counting the hours on a blued steel gong, concealed in the stepped, ebonized wooden base with brass stringing, and with protective oval dome
CONDITION:
base with tight splits and minor losses to surface, one piece of brass inlay loose at right side of base, gilding very good, with minor dirt and spotting, dial resilvered, movement dirty, oily, ticks and strikes, would benefit from service, gong with minor oxidation, dome good
ESTIMATE:
$5000
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$7000
PRICE SOLD:
$6500
CIRCA: 1860
DIMENSIONS: 21.5in x 14.75in x 9.25in
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