A THREE-PIECE EGYPTIAN REVIVAL MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK SET

SIGNED BY TIFFANY & COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, CIRCA 1890

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A THREE-PIECE EGYPTIAN REVIVAL MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK SET
Signed by Tiffany & Company, New York City, circa 1890
Comprising a clock and two obelisks: the clock with bronze figure of a sphinx resting on a rectangular outset shelf above a flaring marble case with incised hieroglyphics fronted by an outset panel with winged-figure spandels centering a circular glazed door opening to a dial with gilt-incised Roman chapter ring centering TIFFANY & COMP. NEW YORK, all on a flaring base with gilt-incised figure of a spreadwinged insect; the obelisks each with a flaring obelisk simlarly decorated above an outset shelf over a flaring plinth fronted by a rectangular panel with gilt-incised winged bird, on a flaring marble and brass base with gilt-incised figure of a spreadwinged insect
21in high, the obelisks; 17in. high, 15in. wide, 6in. deep, the clock

Lot Essay

A similar example by Tiffany & Co., is in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and illustrated in 19th-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts (New York, 1970), fig. 232. This piece in yellows and reds, offers the range of different examples available from Tiffany & Company in the late nineteenth century.

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