DROCOURT DE PARIS (1860-1900)

Drocourt. Strike/repeat carriage clock with very fine engraving. (c. 1870 France)

Drocourt. Strike/repeat carriage clock with very fine engraving. (France)

Item Stock Code

D240

Item Medium Description

Gilded brass

Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details

Drocourt No 14391

Current Item Condition

Excellent

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

D240. Drocourt No 14391. A particularly fine quality gong striking and repeating gilded carriage clock by this eminent maker, smothered in superbly executed floral engraving. The background to the floral designs has been taken back and matted to accentuate the flowers, a highly skilled and time consuming process.

The gorge case has a lightly decorated lobed handle with a recessed engraved panel beneath with bevelled oval glass revealing the well executed silvered platform with lever escapement. The circular white enamelled dial with delicate roman hour and small arabic minute numerals is surrounded by an engraved and gilded mask of the very finest quality. The sides, base and back are similarly decorated. The clock bears Drocourt’s insignia, a tiny carriage clock flanked by his initials, contained within an oval, to the left of the backplate. The clock is complete with velvet lined deep red carrying case. Circa 1870.

Height with/without handle 6"/4.75" (15.2/ 12.2cms) £4,950

Drocourt (Pierre and Alfred).worked at Rue Debelleyme 28 and Rue de Limoges Paris
and won numerous awards for their work. They are described by Allix and Bonnert in their book on carriage clocks as making superb carriage clocks, predominantly decorative and always attractive in appearance.

DROCOURT DE PARIS

Type	Artist/Maker
Country of origin	France
Started working	1860
Stopped working	1900

Pierre & Alfred Drocourt were one of the top maker's of carriage clocks in the mid to late Victorian period, having a factory at Saint-Nicolas-d'Ailermont, the most important town for carriage clock manufacture at the time as well as premises in Paris at Rue Debelleyme 28 and Rue de Limoges. They made superb carriage clocks which were mainly decorative and were awarded numerous medals at exhibitions, such as the Bronze Medal at Paris 1867, the Silver at Paris 1878 and the gold at Paris in 1889. The son, Alfred, succeeded his father Pierre sometime in the 1870's.

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