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A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted biscuit porcelain striking mantel clock and garniture, second half 19th century
The case surmounted by a group showing an amorino in an embrace with a scantily clad girl, another amorino peeking to one side, on D-ended base inset with foliate cast mounts, with relief panel to the front depicting amorini playing, on toupie feet, the white enamel Arabic dial with pierced gilt-metal hands, the twin barrel movement with later vertically positioned cylinder escapement and strike on bell; and the pair of three light candelabra en suite, each modelled with an amorino standing below the branches, on cylindrical socle
The clock -- 13¾in. (35cm.) high, the candelabra -- 13¾in. (35cm.) high (3)
The case surmounted by a group showing an amorino in an embrace with a scantily clad girl, another amorino peeking to one side, on D-ended base inset with foliate cast mounts, with relief panel to the front depicting amorini playing, on toupie feet, the white enamel Arabic dial with pierced gilt-metal hands, the twin barrel movement with later vertically positioned cylinder escapement and strike on bell; and the pair of three light candelabra en suite, each modelled with an amorino standing below the branches, on cylindrical socle
The clock -- 13¾in. (35cm.) high, the candelabra -- 13¾in. (35cm.) high (3)