C.1810, French, Capucine, Signed on Dial: Bourdalone, a Bourges.
This is a wonderful clock that helps demonstrate the origins of the French carriage clock. Capucines were produced with both cylinder escapements and with silk suspended pendulums (this one has pendulum); note the F/S adjustment and scale above the 12. These clocks were produced in the Morbier-Morez area and you will note the similarities in construction, strike/alarm bell at top with vertical strike and alarm shafts, etc. Although the time and strike trains are wound from the front, the alarm is wound with a pull string (note alarm barrel top right in rear view), and the rack, snail and warning levers are on the rear plate, a second string on the right for repeat. This clock is clean and in excellent condition; dome and base are new but serve well to keep out dust. A very similar clock with balance sold at Sotheby's, NY, April 26, 2001, lot 86, for $9000. Height of clock, 11 inches, overall, 12 inches
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