A late 19th century French cast brass wall clock with thermometer, having 4.5″ white enamelled Roman dial with moon hands, the two-train bell-striking movement with lever platform escapement, the cast case surmounted by a basket of fruit over zoomorphic foliate scrolls issuing flaming torches and flanking an ethanol thermometer, marked “THERMOMETRE”, with Centigrade and Reaumur scale over spiral terminal, the rear cast “DEPOSE” and “LG”, 24.5″ (62cm) high, sold with winder.
Condition
Dial – flake chips around winding squares (especially right), faint crack over hands, haircracking around III, IX and XII. Movement – sound. Case-some minor rusting to surmount, minor cracks to thermometer plate, tarnishing to rear cover and bruising to rim of rear cover. Fellows do not guarantee the working order or accuracy of any clocks sold.
French Brass Decorative Wall Clock, time and strike, spring driven, 5 1/4″ porcelain dial with blue numerals and pendulum. Circa. mid to late 1800’s
(The finish has been restored, there are some small touchups to chips around the wind holes and top at 60 minutes. Pendulum may not be original.)
22″ T x 13″ W