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THE PROPERTY OF A TITLED GENTLEMAN (LOTS 226-237)
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN-MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
BY PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Details
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN-MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
BY PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Modelled as a vert d'Irlande marble fluted capital surmounted by a putto and centred by an enamel dial signed 'Sormani / A Paris' with later twin-barrel movement with strike on bell and flanked by cockerel heads terminating in acanthus above an oak-leaf garland foot and square base mounted with geometric floral frieze to each side
23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) high; 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) square
BY PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Modelled as a vert d'Irlande marble fluted capital surmounted by a putto and centred by an enamel dial signed 'Sormani / A Paris' with later twin-barrel movement with strike on bell and flanked by cockerel heads terminating in acanthus above an oak-leaf garland foot and square base mounted with geometric floral frieze to each side
23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) high; 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) square
Provenance
Property of a New York Collector; Christie’s East, New York, 24 May 1993, lot 218.