"Important Executive Clock With Date Signed Bergmiller From Paris"
Important pendulum portal Directoire period late eighteenth or early nineteenth, white and black marble with rich decor of finely chiseled and gilded bronzes, such as eagle with outstretched wings enclosing a snake, caryatids with Egyptian bust, patinated bronze sphynges a plume, friezes of palmettes, rosettes, rows of pearls, garlands of flowers, rich drapery decorated with palmettes, pendulum radiating in the mask of Mercury, ... The dial, circular, in white enamel with Roman numerals in black marked " Bergmiller à Paris "Original movement with calendar in working condition Superb condition, very beautiful mercury gilding, partly burnished with agate. A similar model is listed in "The French Pendulum Encyclopedia" by Pierre Kjellberg, p.199.