19th century rococo display cabinet with a clock

An unusual rococo style cabinet, with a clock! Made of oak wood, dated to the 2nd half of the 19th century.
Furniture after professional renovation, to set up and use.
Noteworthy are the original, old cast panes, openwork decorations characteristic for the style and, above all, the clock in the central part.
Two-piece servant. Bottom of three-door furniture, with three drawers. With straight sides. Front of the furniture with wavy outline. The whole decorated with precisely carved rocaillas characteristic for charming rococo style.
The upper part is very expressive. Glazed on three sides, even at the top and corner columns! Please pay attention to the openwork rocaillas on the panes! Inside two shelves. The interior is lined with green cloth.
Furniture topped with a wavy crown with floral decoration at the top.
Inside the furniture clock - after a professional watchmaking inspection.
Clock mechanism:
Signed on the dial H BURY A PARIS French with low serial number 3740.
Spring-loaded pendulum regulator. Full mechanism plates as thick as 2.7 mm in perfect condition without signs of corrosion. Wheel pinions fully polished.
Partially silver-etched brass dial with painted Roman numerals on a silvery field. Minute graduation with Arabic numeral index. The middle field is hand engraved with a plant motif. Four cast brass figures around the dial.
Hour and half-hour beating mechanism with Parisian design, one-tone punched on the bell of the skull.
The mechanism is equipped with an additional signed system of precise adjustment placed below the number XII, which allows for precise setting of the clock walk without opening the case (Louis-Gabriel Brocot patent from 1840).
Beautiful steel hands, hand sawn and polished, blue-brushed (/non-curvature/ - hot applied oxide anti-corrosion coating).
Brocot grip not symmetrical. Short pendulum typical for French clocks with steel rod, brass pendulum lens.
Mechanism made in classic very solid way does not bear traces of excessive wear or unprofessional repairs such as narrowing bearings.
Unique and unusual piece of furniture after professional renovation.
Dimensions:
Width: 138 cm
Depth: 55 cm
Height: 252 cm

Antiques.co.uk Ref: BUJAFX6R

Width (cm):

138

Height (cm):

252

Depth (cm):

55

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