Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces.

Hong Kong, Dec 12, 2018

LOT 19

BAULLIER & GUYERDET, PARIS DECORATIVE CLOCK, THE LIBRARY

HKD 20,000 - 40,000

USD 2,500 - 5,000 / EUR 2,200 - 4,500

Ormolu and chiselled gilded bonze, 8-day going, key-winding, "Restauration" mantel clock, in the shape of a bookcase, with hour and half-hour striking on a bell The scene shows two children dressed in the Antique sitting in front of a library, one reading, the other writing. On the bookcase are laid crowns and emblems of the reward given to studious students


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-6

Good

Slightly oxidized
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Baullier & Guyerdet

Year circa 1820

Movement No. 3 751

Caliber brass, circular Paris-type, with two going barrels, anchor escapement, silk suspension and pendulum

Dimensions 43 x 28 x 18.5 cm.

Signature dial

Accessories steel winding-key

Notes

The Library This clock is described as “modèle Bibliothèque” (library model) in the inventories of Tuileries Castel in Paris in 1826. As the subject would suggest, it would have been intended to be placed in a library. A similar clock, signed by Charles Oudin, Paris, is kept in Niort (Deux-Sèvres, France), in the Bernard d’Agesci Museum (Inv. 995.8.1), and was presented in the exhibition “Trace de plume” (November 5, 1995