An Empire ormolu and marble astronomical month-going striking skeleton clock Attributed to Verneuil, circa 1820 The engraved silvered Roman dial with subsidiary seconds ring at XII, blued steel moon hands with counterpoised minute hand, within an ormolu egg-and-dart and ropetwist bezel, subsidiary rings below for moonphase, date and day of week, the movement with break-arch shaped plates with five back-pinned pillars and twin barrels, the going with pin wheel escapement and vertically positioned steel-suspended grid-iron pendulum with half-second dial within the gilt bob, outside countwheel strike on bell, the movement supported on two ormolu rectangular plinths with acanthus moulded bases supported on a green marble base with a foliate cast mount to the front and on further ormolu plinth with rosette and foliate feet; ormolu-framed glazed dome on ogee moulded mahogany base 33½ in. (84.5 cm.) high
An Empire ormolu and marble astronomical month-going striking skeleton clock Attributed to Verneuil, circa 1820 The engraved silvered Roman dial with subsidiary seconds ring at XII, blued steel moon hands with counterpoised minute hand, within an ormolu egg-and-dart and ropetwist bezel, subsidiary rings below for moonphase, date and day of week, the movement with break-arch shaped plates with five back-pinned pillars and twin barrels, the going with pin wheel escapement and vertically positioned steel-suspended grid-iron pendulum with half-second dial within the gilt bob, outside countwheel strike on bell, the movement supported on two ormolu rectangular plinths with acanthus moulded bases supported on a green marble base with a foliate cast mount to the front and on further ormolu plinth with rosette and foliate feet; ormolu-framed glazed dome on ogee moulded mahogany base 33½ in. (84.5 cm.) high
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