90th Auction

2014/11/15

Lot 422

French, Height 435 mm, circa 1880
Extremely rare lighthouse "Pendule Industrial" with revolving lantern
Case: brass, gilt, round black marble base, brickwork, pierced gallery, revolving silvered lantern with clock movement, two Celsius thermometers and aneroid barometer with Swedish lettering. Dial: silvered, inlaid radial Roman numerals, matt gilt centre, blued distaff hands. Movm.: brass movement with platform, 8 day-movement, the upper part revolving as a true lighthouse driven by a seperate mechanism in the base.
An almost identical "Pendule Industrial" is part of the permanent collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing.
to be sold without reserve

Sold

estimated
5.0006.000 €
Price realized
1.300 €