Rare regulator with circular dial in agglomerated... - Lot 239 - Thierry de Maigret

Lot 239
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Rare regulator with circular dial in agglomerated... - Lot 239 - Thierry de Maigret
Rare regulator with circular dial in agglomerated glass, signed "Dourdoullion à Lyon", indicating the hours in Roman numerals, the minutes in increments of fifteen in Arabic numerals, the seconds, the Gregorian and Republican calendars, the phases of the moon and the equation of time, marking the difference between True Time and Mean Time. The movement supports its lyre balance in damascened steel or silvered bronze, decorated with friezes with alternating bands of flowery branches or strings of pearls and rhombuses, set to the rhythm of a snake with finely treated scales highlighting a metal circle with a thermometer in the upper part, and in the lower part intersecting on a squared escutcheon motif standing out on two wings adorned with lightning bolts or stylised waves; the lower part of the pendulum, in the form of a barrette with sticks decorated with vases or floral bouquets, is also signed "Dourdoullion à Lyon" and supports the circular lens with radiating motifs. The whole is enclosed in a cherry wood sheath case with rosettes and gilded bronze framing rods richly adorned with geometrically patterned friezes of pearls and lozenges or brass cubes on an ebony background or vice versa. Lyon, Empire period, circa 1805. H: 230 cm - W: 49 cm - D: 26 cm With a composition and decoration close to the Parisian creations of the Directoire period and presenting a double calendar, Gregorian and republican, this important regulator must however be dated from the mid 1800's and illustrates the delay, more or less long, of the repercussions of the new aesthetic and technical schemes of the capital on the provincial decorative arts, in this case Lyon. Thus, following the revolutionary troubles, new data were introduced for the counting and measuring of time, marking the appearance of the republican calendar and decimal time. The former lasted several years, precisely until the year XIV, while the latter was much shorter; in fact, the decimal time, also cal
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