FRENCH GILT BRONZE, SEVRES PORCELAIN AND PORPHYRY PENDULE À CERCLES TOURNANTS URN MANTEL CLOCK
19TH CENTURY
£1,512
Auction: Lots 329 - 512 | 14 November 2024 at 10am
Description
the annular Arabic minute and Roman hour dials with cream enamel plaques, mounted in a blue porcelain urn supported by three female masks on pairs of doe feet, with a berry finial and acanthus mounts, raised on a stepped tripartite bronze base on a circular porphyry plinth, the cobalt blue porcelain body stamped with blue crossed L Sevres mark to the interior, the twin train barrel movement later converted to platform level escapement, striking to a bell
Dimensions
27cm high, 11cm diameter