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A French porcelain and bronze mounted easel timepiece, late 19th or early 20th century
The circular dial (with hairline crack) with gilt heightened rope-twist to the outer edge, with Arabic numerals on a powder blue ground, around a painted mediaeval battle scene, the hands modelled as a halberd and a pikestaff, mounted on bronze legs modelled as crossed laurel sprays, with halberd finial, the back leg with tied ribbon base, the single barrel movement with replaced lever escapement -- 24¾in. (62.8cm.) high
The circular dial (with hairline crack) with gilt heightened rope-twist to the outer edge, with Arabic numerals on a powder blue ground, around a painted mediaeval battle scene, the hands modelled as a halberd and a pikestaff, mounted on bronze legs modelled as crossed laurel sprays, with halberd finial, the back leg with tied ribbon base, the single barrel movement with replaced lever escapement -- 24¾in. (62.8cm.) high