A fine French gilt brass bamboo cased carriage clock with relief enamelled panels and push-button repeatProbably by Jules Brunelot, Paris, late 19th centuryThe eight-day gong striking movement with platform lever escapement and stamped with trademark B within a circle to lower left hand corner, the rectangular enamel dial panel overall decorated with pair of relief wading cranes, flowering shrubbery and bamboo shoots incorporating Roman numeral cartouche chapter ring and blued steel spade hands, the gilt brass bevel glazed bamboo case with frame modelled to resemble sections of bamboo overlapping at the corners, the top with conforming hinged carrying handle and panel-glazed escapement aperture and the sides inset with additional relief chinoiserie enamel panels matching the dial with male opposing female wading cranes and butterflies amongst flowering bamboo shoots within a cream ground, on integral bamboo stump feet, (original platform escapement replaced but present with the clock) 16.5cm (6.5ins) excluding handle. Provenance: The beneficiary of the Estate of a private collector, East Midlands. The trademark stamped to the lower left hand corner of the backplate of the current lot (letter B within a circle) is noted in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development as possibly being for Jules Brunelot although no evidence has been found to confirm this.The enamel panels of the current lot are unusual in that details such as the cranes, insects and and larger floral blooms are picked-out in relief giving the scene a three-dimensional appearance. This style of enamel work is rare however a similar example is illustrated in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and other Travelling CLOCKS page 173 (Fig. 10.18). The overall visual effect exemplifies the Orientalist style which was at its height during the 1880's. Traditionally cranes in Chinese art represent peace and longevity, although the decoration is very much an European interpretation the symbolism would seem highly appropriate for a carriage clock.
A fine French gilt brass bamboo cased carriage clock with relief enamelled panels and push-button repeatProbably by Jules Brunelot, Paris, late 19th centuryThe eight-day gong striking movement with platform lever escapement and stamped with trademark B within a circle to lower left hand corner, the rectangular enamel dial panel overall decorated with pair of relief wading cranes, flowering shrubbery and bamboo shoots incorporating Roman numeral cartouche chapter ring and blued steel spade hands, the gilt brass bevel glazed bamboo case with frame modelled to resemble sections of bamboo overlapping at the corners, the top with conforming hinged carrying handle and panel-glazed escapement aperture and the sides inset with additional relief chinoiserie enamel panels matching the dial with male opposing female wading cranes and butterflies amongst flowering bamboo shoots within a cream ground, on integral bamboo stump feet, (original platform escapement replaced but present with the clock) 16.5cm (6.5ins) excluding handle. Provenance: The beneficiary of the Estate of a private collector, East Midlands. The trademark stamped to the lower left hand corner of the backplate of the current lot (letter B within a circle) is noted in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development as possibly being for Jules Brunelot although no evidence has been found to confirm this.The enamel panels of the current lot are unusual in that details such as the cranes, insects and and larger floral blooms are picked-out in relief giving the scene a three-dimensional appearance. This style of enamel work is rare however a similar example is illustrated in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and other Travelling CLOCKS page 173 (Fig. 10.18). The overall visual effect exemplifies the Orientalist style which was at its height during the 1880's. Traditionally cranes in Chinese art represent peace and longevity, although the decoration is very much an European interpretation the symbolism would seem highly appropriate for a carriage clock.
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