A FRENCH ORMOLU AND PIETRA DURA MANTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed black dial with gilt chapters and twin-train movement stamped 3586 with GR in an oval above and striking on a bell, surmounted by a finial and flanked to each side by a female mask and husk pendants, above an arched panel with beaded edge, centred by a pietra dura panel of flowers and flanked by female caryatids, supportiung the moulded cornice, a pietra dura panel to each side, the canted frieze with five smaller rectangular panels, on toupie feet, last quarter 19th century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND PIETRA DURA MANTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed black dial with gilt chapters and twin-train movement stamped 3586 with GR in an oval above and striking on a bell, surmounted by a finial and flanked to each side by a female mask and husk pendants, above an arched panel with beaded edge, centred by a pietra dura panel of flowers and flanked by female caryatids, supportiung the moulded cornice, a pietra dura panel to each side, the canted frieze with five smaller rectangular panels, on toupie feet, last quarter 19th century
11in. (28cm.) wide; 20½in. (52cm.) high; 6¼in. (16cm.) deep

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