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Rare French Gilt-Bronze Quarter-Striking Candlestick Clock with a Porcelain Plaque. um 1870.
A particularly nice mid-Victorian quarter-striking candlestick clock with a porcelain plaque. The cast gilt-bronze frame has an extremely detailed porcelain plaque in the center, the movement above and stands on a hexagonal white piece of marble that is mounted to an oval felt covered ebonized base with the original shade.

The polychrome porcelain plaque depicts a cherub amongst the clouds wrapped in a blanket holding a sprig of wheat encircled by a raised gilt and blue border. The porcelain chapter ring dial has blue well-lettered Roman numerals for the hours, steel-cut tre-foil hands and is signed by the maker 'Pert. Bally, Paris'.

Above sits the time and strike eight-day movement that strikes the quarters by torsion on two bells mounted above. The back plate is stamped by both the ebauche maker, 'Pons', and the finisher, 'Bally'. The pendulum has an engraved lenticular bob and is suspended by a steel suspension spring that is regulated out the dial above the twelve.

In Tardy's, A. Philibert Bally is listed as exhibiting a quarter striking clock in Paris in 1867. His last recorded working address was on Rue d'Aboukir in 1870. The whole, including the base and shade, is original and complete.

Height - 14.5 inches Height with Dome -15.5 inches.

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