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AN EMPIRE STYLE DOVE GREY MARBLE AND GILT BRONZE PORTICO MANTEL CLOCK, 19th century
The drum-shaped case with tasselled apron, circular white enamel Roman dial and gilt-metal trefoil pointers, the dial signed Deschamps à Paris, the twin going barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on a bell, the case surmounted by a tazza-shaped finial, the double column uprights with engine milled capitals flanking the pendulum cast with conjoined butterflies below a stepped entablature and urn-shaped finials, on a rectangular base and toupie feet, restorations
20½in. (52cm) high
The drum-shaped case with tasselled apron, circular white enamel Roman dial and gilt-metal trefoil pointers, the dial signed Deschamps à Paris, the twin going barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on a bell, the case surmounted by a tazza-shaped finial, the double column uprights with engine milled capitals flanking the pendulum cast with conjoined butterflies below a stepped entablature and urn-shaped finials, on a rectangular base and toupie feet, restorations
20½in. (52cm) high