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Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 342

Neuchâtel area, circa 1780. Fine painted eight day going, quarter striking and repeating Louis XVI cartel clock with matching bracket.

C. Shaped, painted with flowers on a cream ground with applied repoussé gilt brass and bronze floral and rocaille decoration. Matching bracket and top.D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Gilt brass Louis XVI hands.M. Brass, rectangular with turned pillars, going barrels both on the going and the striking trains, verge escapement, short pendulum with silk suspension. Striking on three bells with striking and pull-wind repeating work visible on the back plate. Signed on the dial and back plate.Dim. 93 x 36 x 15 cm.