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EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS THREE-PIECE GARNITURE
Early 19th Century
Comprising a vase-shaped mantel clock and a pair of faceted glass vases, each flanked by winged maiden issuing from scrolling acanthus and holding aloft fruiting vine garlands issuing from bearded Faun's masks, and on a circular spreading foot decorated in relief with stars, swans and palmettes, on a rectangular plinth with concave moulded edge and on splayed feet terminating in dragon's heads, the clock with white enamel dial signed 'a Paris', and twin barrel movement with silk suspension and continental strike on bell, the waisted neck surmounted by a domed lid with a pine-cone finial, the plinth decorated in relief depicting the resting Venus to the front and bacchic masks to the sides
the clock 20 in. (51 cm.) high;
the vases 16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high (3)
Early 19th Century
Comprising a vase-shaped mantel clock and a pair of faceted glass vases, each flanked by winged maiden issuing from scrolling acanthus and holding aloft fruiting vine garlands issuing from bearded Faun's masks, and on a circular spreading foot decorated in relief with stars, swans and palmettes, on a rectangular plinth with concave moulded edge and on splayed feet terminating in dragon's heads, the clock with white enamel dial signed 'a Paris', and twin barrel movement with silk suspension and continental strike on bell, the waisted neck surmounted by a domed lid with a pine-cone finial, the plinth decorated in relief depicting the resting Venus to the front and bacchic masks to the sides
the clock 20 in. (51 cm.) high;
the vases 16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high (3)
Provenance
Mrs Stanley Mortimer
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