Description
The appliqué figures strike the bells with their movable arms. The Swiss case encloses a French movement.
Provenance
Matthew P. McCullough Collection, Chicago [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Christie's, New York (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Inscription] On escapement: Castre à Toulouse No. 1329
[Inscription] Balance cock is pierced and engraved: PHILIPPE BOREL