A rare Italian Baroque ebony gilt brass mounted night timepiece, Berthelemy Fenis, last quarter 17th century fusee movement with pilaster pillars signed Barthelemy Fenis A Rome and verge escapement turning a disc with a pierced fleur-de-lis pointer along an aperture with pierced numerals I-VI, below a painted scene with an angel and a sleeping man in a landscape, architectural ebony veneered case with a scrolled broken pediment surmounted by two gilt angels and a finial, canted sides with fine break arch mouldings supported by pilasters flanking niches adorned with bustes, mounts and statues, shaped moulded plinth raised on bun feet, restorations height 78cm
A rare Italian Baroque ebony gilt brass mounted night timepiece, Berthelemy Fenis, last quarter 17th century fusee movement with pilaster pillars signed Barthelemy Fenis A Rome and verge escapement turning a disc with a pierced fleur-de-lis pointer along an aperture with pierced numerals I-VI, below a painted scene with an angel and a sleeping man in a landscape, architectural ebony veneered case with a scrolled broken pediment surmounted by two gilt angels and a finial, canted sides with fine break arch mouldings supported by pilasters flanking niches adorned with bustes, mounts and statues, shaped moulded plinth raised on bun feet, restorations height 78cm
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