Estimate

6.000 - 8.000

Session 1

20 July 2026

Hammer Price

Description

Finely chased and gilt bronze, with a white enamel dial signed Imbert L’aîné, Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes.

Spring-driven mechanical movement with an eight- to fourteen-day power reserve and half-hour striking mechanism on a bell.

The case with an allegorical composition symbolising War and Peace, decorated with military trophies, a cannon, swords, shield, standards and garlands, flanked by two putti, one holding a bow and arrow and the other a shield and helmet.

Raised on a shaped ebonized wooden base with gilt-bronze mounts, moulded ornamental friezes in relief and spherical feet.

France, c. 1770–1780.

(movement not tested)

Height: 36 cm