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
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
5.000—6.000 €
Price realized
1.300 €