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Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 272

?Japonaise? French, No. 105. Made circa 1890. Very fine and rare, gilt brass, hour and half-hour striking and repeating carriage clock with hand-painted porcelain panels in the Japanese style.

C. Multi-piece, ?Anglaise?, gilt brass, stepped and molded entablature, beaded decoration, hinged handle with fluted center, glazed aperture on the top to view the escapement, the sides set with porcelain panels painted with birds in a landscape on raised gilded prunus boughs, glazed back door, molded base with bracket feet. D. Porcelain, decorated to match the case sides, radial Roman numerals on gold-edged white cartouches, outer gold painted minute ring. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands. 272 M. 10 x 7.5 cm, gilt brass rectangular, ring-turned pillars, going barrels for both trains, lateral lever escapement on a frosted silvered platform, notched bimetallic compensation balance, flat blued steel balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and half-hours and repeating the hours on a blued steel coiled gong. Dim. 15 x 10 x 9 cm. Excluding the handle.