Lot 357

Francesco Broccetti, Firenze, 340 mm, circa 1700
A decorative quarter repeating Italian table clock with hour self strike with only one strike "en passant" and alarm
Case: wood, ebonized. Dial: silvered chapter ring on very finely engraved gilt-brass plate, gilt chapter ring for alarm. Movm.: rectangular-shaped brass movement, signed, 3 hammers / 2 bells, 2 barrels, gut/fusee, brass pendulum.
Francesco Broccetti is mentioned in Enrico Morpurgo‘s reference book Dizionario Degli Orologiai Italiani (Milano 1974) as having been a master in Florence around 1700.

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