Stock No. | Exhibit No.19 |
Height | 14¼ inches |
Case | Of English-inspired construction with circular-section post columns, inverted-urn feet and urn finials, pierced gallery frets, the front fret engraved with a coat-of-arms of three cockerels with lion supporters and a helm cresting, the bell held by a further finial to the plain four-legged brass bell-strap pinned to the corner finials. |
Dial | The dial with long-tailed single faceted blued-steel hand to the silvered chapter ring with arrow half-hour markings, signed Jacques Layllet A Paris, in an upward curve in the lower half of the dial-plate centre also engraved with central dahlia flowerhead below a winged cherub-head and flanking daffodil flowers. |
Movement | The strut-retained movement hour striking via a countwheel mounted on the back-strut, the going train with verge escapement mounted on the top-plate with pivoted crutchpiece. |
Duration | 30 hour |
Provenance | Brian Loomes, 2005, sold for £9,500; |
Escapement | Verge |
Jacques Laylette, Paris. Circa 1680
A Louis XIV striking verge lantern clock in the English manner
£9,500
Additional information
Dimensions | 5827373 cm |
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