Description
Porcelain clock made around the year 1820. The clock is in the style of the chinoiserie and are hand painted. The hourly machine is a nice thing. Someone calls this "travel clock" because of the absence of pendulum, who replaced the flywheel and the clock worked on the ways… It was a great luxury in its time. A similar system, But in the "male design" you can find for example at official alarm clocks.
In her time it was calmly an expensive present for the lady "When it started to be in fashion of travel".
There is a built -in roller step used. From today's point of view it was a blind arm of development (that system has no anchor), But it was a total groundbreaking invention, For this reason, these hours were more luxurious. The clock is marked on the dial and inside the machine.
State: functional, Porcelain statuette has been restored in the past. Provenience: France - Paris.
Dimensions: height 27,5 cm, width 21,5 cm, depth 21 cm.
