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A French 2nd Empire 8-day and striking table clock

 
 

FR 23/04
 

An impressive and extraordinairy French Louis XVI 8-day striking mantel clock, the enamal dial signed Albert Baillon à Paris, the massive movement signed Courvoisier à Paris, silk suspended pendulum, ebony veneered wooden base, original gilding and patination, 50 cm high and wide, ca. 1780. The different signatures on dial and movement could mean that Courvoisier delivered a movement to Albert Baillon.

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