Object Description
An 18th century gilt bronze Cartel clock with a white enamel dial signed Le Nepveu a Paris, with finely pierced and engraved gilt hands, the Roman and Arabic numerals contained within a cartouche-shaped case with a ‘Vitruvian wave’ frieze surmounted by an classical urn, the sides with tapering pilasters with rams’ masks, the base cast with a lion mask, draped with a lion’s pelt, with guttae and acanthus leaves.
The clock movement has an eight-day, spring-driven going train and a count-wheel striking train, striking the hours and half hour on a single bell mounted above. The movement has an anchor escapement with a silk pendelum suspension.