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French Directoire period Portico Clock (1299) French Portico Clock, black marble with gilt brass. In perfect working order. Breguet hands on a white dial with brass ring. Eight day movement, silk suspension. |
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French Louis XVI Portico (1299) French Louis XVI - Directoire black marble gilt brass and bronze mantel clock. Beautiful brequet hands and an unusual dial bronze with a white enamel ring. |
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Sold Achille Brocot Portico Clock (1311) Achille Brocot (1817-1878 was a French Clock maker and mathemathician, the eldest son of L.G. Brocot. In 1856 he was treasurer to La Societe des Horologers in Paris, awarded First Class medal at the 1855 Paris Exhibition. His trademark was advertised in the 1864 Almanach Artistique as AB in a star. He was the inventor of the pin pallet escapement that was designed for use in pendulum clocks. In 1860 he invented the Brocot Escapement, and the Brocot suspension (spring blade pendulum suspension). In 1861: the dicovery of the Stern-Brocot arbor (new method of calculating cogs by approximation), independently of German Mathematician Moritz-Stern who discovered it in 1658. The dial is signed: Menet a Lons-Le-Saunier. |
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Portico Clock (1245) |
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Sold Portico Clock (1257) French Rosewood and marquetry inlaid mantel clock, eight day striking movement with deadbeat escapement with glass dome and base. Portico (from Italian) is a porch that is leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. |
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Portico clock (small) (1104) |
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Sold French Portico Clock (1203) The 3 1/2 inch gilt dial with engine turned central in acanthus relief bezel, the countwheel movement striking on bell and bronze pendulum all supported in four column architectural case having with ormulu mounts. |
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Charles X period clock (1202) |
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French Ormolu Portico Clock(1083) The case surmounted by a wreath, two handled urn over drum head housing, together with a matching pair of twin handled urns. Marti was a famous French clockmaker and the clock is of highest quality. |
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Revival Period Clock (1149) French Portico Clock, ebonized case with a serpentine architectural pediment raised on 4 Bernini turned columns with cast ormolu capitals centering the round foliate ormolu bezel. |