LOT 24 A fine late 18th century French ormolu mounted white marble lyre clock with swinging movement, centre seconds and concentric date Breant, Paris
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Breant, ParisSurmounted by an urn of flowers and fruit over similar swags and beading along the sides, meeting a run of leaves, on a concave socle to a base with applied urn and berried ivy mount on toupie feet, the dial and movement set on the girdiron pendulum hinged on a knife edge above, the 5.5 inch enamel chapter ring with outer Arabic minutes/seconds, concentric date and Roman hours, with a pair of matching lyre-shaped hands for the time and blued steel for seconds and date, the spring driven movement within a pair of skeletonised shaped plates, with finely crossed wheels to both trains, the going terminating in a pin-wheel escapement mounted on a single footed cock to the rear, the strike with a countwheel of five crossings striking on a bell 64cms (25ins) high.
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