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THE MOVEMENT BY AMANT
Details
A French Louis XVI ormolu and white-marble mantel clock
The movement by Amant
The circular white-enamelled dial signed Gme Amant?Rue St. Denis à Paris within a circular drum case, the movement with silk-suspension lacking pendulum and outside countwheel strike on a bell, surmounted by a female figure and a cherub flanked by a flaming torch and a quiver of arrows, the bow-fronted panelled plinth centred by cherubs holding foliate garlands and flanked by acanthus, on toupie feet, restorations
34.5cm. high x 27cm. wide x 14cm. deep
The movement by Amant
The circular white-enamelled dial signed Gme Amant?Rue St. Denis à Paris within a circular drum case, the movement with silk-suspension lacking pendulum and outside countwheel strike on a bell, surmounted by a female figure and a cherub flanked by a flaming torch and a quiver of arrows, the bow-fronted panelled plinth centred by cherubs holding foliate garlands and flanked by acanthus, on toupie feet, restorations
34.5cm. high x 27cm. wide x 14cm. deep
Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of the hammer price for lots with values up to NLG 200,000. If the hammer price exceeds the NLG 200,000 then the premium is calculated at 20.825% of the first NLG 200,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000.