DESCRIPTION:
Goyer, a Paris, a neoclassical gilt bronze "Aux Guirlandes" cartel clock, the cast case surmounted by an urn with ram's heads at the sides, each with a ring in its mouth suspending a laurel festoon, the festoons continuing down the case sides and terminating beneath the bezel, case sides with textile backed apertures and foliate form brass frets, bottom with Vitruvian scroll panels above a fluted incurved bracket with laurel and acanthus ornament, roman numeral, convex white enamel dial with arabic five minute markers, signed "Goyer a Paris", well made pierced and engraved hands, large, flat bottomed round movement of at least two week duration, with recoil escapement, silk thread suspension and striking on a bell, the front plate with scribed circles for train layout, front and back plates also with holes for observing depth of engagemen between wheels and pinions
CONDITION:
case with losses to gilding and minor tarnish, decorative buttons attaching the top of the side festoons replaced, pendulum aperture and bezel lacking glass, bezel with bends, dial with hairlines and filled losses, hour hand with solder near boss, movement dirty, ticks and strikes, cock holding rear end of regulator replaced, time ratchet with replaced tooth, pendulum replaced
ESTIMATE:
$2000
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$3000
PRICE SOLD:
$800
CIRCA: 1770
DIMENSIONS: 28in x 13in x 5in
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