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A Louis Philippe bronze and ormolu-mounted automaton watch stand, second quarter 19th century
Modelled as an architectural niche flanked by pilasters, with a relief figure of a knight standing on a plinth with lion mask below issuing a spiral-twist glass simulating spouting water, mounted above a tracery arch gallery with later glass liner, on rectangular base with dolphin feet, with coronet frame for the watch to the top, the glass rod driven by a single barrel movement
17in. (44cm.) high
Modelled as an architectural niche flanked by pilasters, with a relief figure of a knight standing on a plinth with lion mask below issuing a spiral-twist glass simulating spouting water, mounted above a tracery arch gallery with later glass liner, on rectangular base with dolphin feet, with coronet frame for the watch to the top, the glass rod driven by a single barrel movement
17in. (44cm.) high