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French Empire Pinwheel Portico Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$3,000 – $5,000[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$3,500[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]8:00 AM – Nov 23, 2013[/restrict]

French Empire Pinwheel Portico Clock. A fantastic birds-eye maple case with 4 turned columns, bronze dore capitols, trim and bezel around the dial, which has a 5 in. porcelain chapter ring with black Roman hour numerals, engraved dore bronze center, open moon hands and sweep seconds hand. Large, round brass movement is signed Rieussec, Hger Du Roi; has a pinwheel escapement, long heavy brass, gridiron pendulum hangs from a knifepoint suspension in the rear of the case. 22.25 in. high x 11.25 in. wide x 6.75 in. deep.

French Empire Malachite Portico Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$4,000 – $6,000[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$3,500[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]7:00 AM – Nov 17, 2012[/restrict]

French Empire Malachite Portico Clock. 4.5 in. porcelain chapter ring with black Roman hour numerals, engraved dore bronze center and bezel, blued open moon hands; French brass spring driven movement, count wheel strike mechanism with silvered bell, large gridiron pendulum with heavy brass bob. The malachite case has 4 tapered columns with dore bronze capitols, cornice, base and feet. In very good condition with no breaks or repairs. 20.5 in. high x 10 in. wide x 7 in. deep.

French Empire Bronze Portico Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$1,200 – $1,500[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$1,200[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]8:00 AM – May 17, 2014[/restrict]

French Empire Bronze Portico Clock. 3.5 in. gilt brass dial with black painted Roman hour numerals, machined center, acanthus leaf bezel and open moon hands; has a typical round brass 8 day spring driven movement with an half hour count wheel strike mechanism on a steel bell, gridiron pendulum with fancy leaf decorated bob. Dore bronze 4 column case with overhanging cornice top, relief decorated filigree and swans on the cornice and relief decorated garland, filigree and swans on the front of the base. In very good condition with an excellent finish and running. 17 in. high x 8.5 in. wide x 4.75 in. deep.

French Pinwheel Portico Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$4,000 – $6,000[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$4,250[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]8:00 AM – May 17, 2014[/restrict]

French Marble & Bronze Portico Clock. 4.5 in. porcelain dial has black Roman hour numerals, dore bronze bezel, open moon hands and sweep seconds hand; quality brass spring driven movement has a pinwheel escapement with large gridiron pendulum, hanging from a knife edge suspension, half hour strike on a steel bell. Rouge marble case has an arched top, reverse tapered columns and stepped base, dore bronze doves mounted at the top, pineapple finials, capitols and turned feet. Case has a repair to the rear left column, few minor corner chips, filled hole around the base which once had a bronze trim piece and single chip on the dial under the strike arbor hole. 18 in. high x 11 in. wide x 5 in. deep.

French Empire Portico Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$500 – $750[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$450[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]7:00 AM – Nov 17, 2012[/restrict]

French Empire Portico Clock. 5 in. Silvered dial w/ black roman numerals and minute markers, open moon hands, round leafy dore bronze bezel; typical round French brass movement with count wheel strike mechanism and silvered bell; movement signed Â Fons 1827. Has a quality gridiron pendulum and a fancy dore bronze flower shaped bob; the mahogany case has smooth columns w/ dore bronze capitols and applied mounts; quality French bronze movement. 21.5 in. high x 11.5 in. wide.

French Empire Portico Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$1,200 – $1,400[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$1,000[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]7:00 AM – Nov 17, 2012[/restrict]

French Empire Portico Clock. 3.5 in. porcelain dial with black Roman hour numerals, open moon hands and fancy dore bronze bezel; early round,brass spring driven French movement, has count wheel half hour strike mechanism and steel bell. In an ebonized, portico style case with spiral turned columns and heavily embellished with dore bronze floral mounts with swirled filigree and central medallions, fancy gridiron pendulum, with figural & relief molded dore bronze bob. Clock attr: to Louis Philippe (c.1840) and is in very good overall condition with only a few very minor losses to the mounts. 20.5 in. high x 10 in. wide x 6 in. deep.

French Empire Portico Calendar Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$7,000 – $9,000[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$5,250[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]8:00 AM – May 17, 2014[/restrict]

Signed L. Dubois French Empire 4 Columns Portico Calendar Clock. 6 in. silvered and damascened dial has black painted Roman hour numerals with open moon hands, 2 sub dials with French abbreviations for Day & Month and open aperture exposing the date, dore bronze filigree decorated bezel; round brass spring driven movement with deadbeat escapement, count wheel half hour strike mechanism with a steel bell, large quality gridiron pendulum, in good running condition. In a beautiful French empire 4 column case with ebonized lacquered finish, dore bronze trim, capitols and overhanging cornice top. 28.5 in. high x 14.5 in. wide x 7.75 in. deep.