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French
miniature timepiece with 4 Sevres porcelain panels
- Details:
This
miniature French timepiece is in a fully engraved
gilded gorge case with (4) Sevres porcelain panels
and a beveled oval glazed top over the original lever
escapement. The gilding and panels are in excellent
original condition and it is in good operating condition.
The movement and case are numbered 14612.
Sevres
porcelain is widely known to be both the French porcelain
of royalty and the royal porcelain of France. The
first soft paste porcelain Sevres items, known as
Vincennes, were begun in 1738 at the Chateau de Vincennes
southeast of Paris.
Former
workmen from the Chantilly ceramics works started
the factory. Close ties to the French court enabled
the Sevres factory to expand the manufacture as well
as to monopolize porcelain production in France in
the early years .
Circa 1870.
Dimensions:
Height is 3.75" to top of handle.
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Comparison of size with Viner carriage clock