A French Louis XVI ormolu mounted marble mantel clock Gaston Jolly, Paris, late 18th century The circular eight-day outside countwheel bell striking movement with silk suspension and circular white enamel Roman numeral dial signed GASTON JOLLY, A PARIS within a stylised gilt banner to centre, with fine engraved and pierced gilt brass hands and Arabic fifteen minutes to the narrow outer minute track within engine-turned moulded gilt brass bezel, the case with surmount modelled as a gilt eagle on column base issuing draped floral festoons down to paired white campana and black ovoid finials issuing leafy sprays to sections of moulded entablature flanking the dial, supported on Corinthian columns with black stop-fluted shafts and gilt capitals before rectangular section uprights with projecting scroll shaped sides applied with floral mounts and gilt finials to waist and with elaborate laurel and musical trophy cast dial apron between, the plinth base fronted with central floral trail inset curved panel flanked by conforming rectangular panels and lion's masks, on milled toupe feet, (pendulum lacking, slight damage to case), 56cm (22ins) high. Francois Pierre Gaston Jolly is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in Paris 1784-9. Condition report disclaimer
A French Louis XVI ormolu mounted marble mantel clock Gaston Jolly, Paris, late 18th century The circular eight-day outside countwheel bell striking movement with silk suspension and circular white enamel Roman numeral dial signed GASTON JOLLY, A PARIS within a stylised gilt banner to centre, with fine engraved and pierced gilt brass hands and Arabic fifteen minutes to the narrow outer minute track within engine-turned moulded gilt brass bezel, the case with surmount modelled as a gilt eagle on column base issuing draped floral festoons down to paired white campana and black ovoid finials issuing leafy sprays to sections of moulded entablature flanking the dial, supported on Corinthian columns with black stop-fluted shafts and gilt capitals before rectangular section uprights with projecting scroll shaped sides applied with floral mounts and gilt finials to waist and with elaborate laurel and musical trophy cast dial apron between, the plinth base fronted with central floral trail inset curved panel flanked by conforming rectangular panels and lion's masks, on milled toupe feet, (pendulum lacking, slight damage to case), 56cm (22ins) high. Francois Pierre Gaston Jolly is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in Paris 1784-9. Condition report disclaimer
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