LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A monumental French ormolu-mounted mahogany longcase clock
Late 19th Century
The drum-shaped upper section surmounted by a laurel crest and musical trophies, the white enamel segmented dial with Roman numerals and Arabic minute divisions, signed Simiand A Paris, with twin-train movement and countwheel strike on a bell, with 'feathered' and foliate-cast surround, the sides each with a grille door of pierced foliate design, the waisted middle section with foliate-cast scrolled bracket to each corner, supporting a foliate festoon, the panelled front and sides centred by a ribbon-tied foliate and musical trophy pendant within a foliate-cast surround, the front opening to reveal a shelved interior, on rectangular base with panelled sides hung with foliate festoons and a fruit pendant to each chamfered corner, on scroll feet
29½ in. (75 cm.) wide; 121¼ in. (308 cm.) high; 22 in. (55.9 cm.) deep
Late 19th Century
The drum-shaped upper section surmounted by a laurel crest and musical trophies, the white enamel segmented dial with Roman numerals and Arabic minute divisions, signed Simiand A Paris, with twin-train movement and countwheel strike on a bell, with 'feathered' and foliate-cast surround, the sides each with a grille door of pierced foliate design, the waisted middle section with foliate-cast scrolled bracket to each corner, supporting a foliate festoon, the panelled front and sides centred by a ribbon-tied foliate and musical trophy pendant within a foliate-cast surround, the front opening to reveal a shelved interior, on rectangular base with panelled sides hung with foliate festoons and a fruit pendant to each chamfered corner, on scroll feet
29½ in. (75 cm.) wide; 121¼ in. (308 cm.) high; 22 in. (55.9 cm.) deep