A French gilt and painted metal timepiece garniture in Orientalist taste

A French gilt and painted metal timepiece garniture in Orientalist taste, final quarter 19th century, the eight-day back wound movement with dual plane duplex escapement, regulated by sprung monometallic balance, with two-tone gilt highlighted Arabic numeral cartouche painted porcelain dial; the circular timepiece suspended from an openwork silvered and gilt metal support cast with dragons, the base painted with Persian inspired foliate and cartouche motifs and landscape scene, 38 cm high; with two twin light candelabra en suite painted with amorini in Rococo taste, 28 cm high
CATALOGUE NOTES:
The movement of the current lot employs a very unusual form of two-plane duplex escapement. The two-plane layout can be compared to those devised by R.E.D. for use in their-drum-shaped travelling timepieces as illustrated in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development plates VIII/29-30 (pages 213-14) whilst the twin-escape wheel arrangement has its roots in an arrangement devised in the early 18th century by Jean-Baptiste Dutertre as illustrated in Reid, Thomas A TREATISE ON CLOCK AND WATCHMAKING plate IX, no. 48.