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A French gilt-bronze striking mantel clock, third quarter 19th century
The case elaborately cast with flowers and scrolls, with trellis frame to the rear and figure of a youth catching birds to the integral plinth, the dial applied with individual white enamel Roman chapters and siogned in the centre RAINGO FRES A PARIS, blued steel quatrefoil hands, the twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell, raised on a giltwood and composition plinth and with ebonised base
The clock -- 12in. (31cm.) high
The case elaborately cast with flowers and scrolls, with trellis frame to the rear and figure of a youth catching birds to the integral plinth, the dial applied with individual white enamel Roman chapters and siogned in the centre RAINGO FRES A PARIS, blued steel quatrefoil hands, the twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell, raised on a giltwood and composition plinth and with ebonised base
The clock -- 12in. (31cm.) high