Old clocks and watches & their makers : being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 437
Fig. 552. Clockmaker to Louis XIV., having lodgings in the Louvre, and onthe pedestals of the two columns, which are prominent features of thedial plate, is the doubled initial of the King, L.L., interlaced andreversed, surmounted by a crown. This treatment, coupled with the 420 Old Clocks and… … Fig. 553. presentation to some distinguished person. The dial circle, supportedby a figure of Saturn, shows hours and minutes, besides which appear,through seven openings within the circle, sunrise, sunset, the length French Clocks and Cases in the French Style 421 of the day, the length of the…
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