LARGE EARLY 19TH CENTURY FRENCH EMPIRE FLAME MAHOGANY EIGHT DAY PORTICO CLOCK

Object Description

LARGE EARLY 19TH CENTURY FRENCH EMPIRE FLAME MAHOGANY EIGHT DAY PORTICO CLOCK
Two train movement count wheel striking on a bell, with chiming on the hour and half-hour.
Flame mahogany veneered case with supported by four mahogany Ionic columns and mounted with finely incised gilt bronze mounts.
The enamel clock face in excellent condition with black roman numerals and ‘open moon’ hands.
Signed on the clock face ‘B.L. Petit, Rue St. Honoré, N° 540 à Paris’. All of the clock movement is original with no replacements. A large and weighted ormolu and steel pendulum.
France c. 1810.
HEIGHT: 64.5 cm (25½”)
WIDTH: 34.5 cm (13½”)
DEPTH: 18 cm (7″)

Object Condition

Excellent no replacement parts. The clock has been cleaned and is in working order

Object Details