AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL BOULLE MARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK inlaid overall with scrolling foliage and with stepped rectangular cresting surmounted by a figure of a Hebe seated on Jupiter's eagle, the circular Roman enamel-chaptered dial centred by strapwork and signed NS.DELAUNAY.A.PARIS, the similarly-signed movement with four baluster pillars, silk-suspended verge escapement with cycloidal cheeks and numbered outside countwheel strike-on-bell above, in a glazed arched case with foliate angles, the shaped apron centred by a mount with two Virtues on a lambrequin-edged lion pelt, on shaped squared bracket supports cast with acanthus and bun feet, remounted
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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL BOULLE MARQUETRY BRACKET CLOCK inlaid overall with scrolling foliage and with stepped rectangular cresting surmounted by a figure of a Hebe seated on Jupiter's eagle, the circular Roman enamel-chaptered dial centred by strapwork and signed NS.DELAUNAY.A.PARIS, the similarly-signed movement with four baluster pillars, silk-suspended verge escapement with cycloidal cheeks and numbered outside countwheel strike-on-bell above, in a glazed arched case with foliate angles, the shaped apron centred by a mount with two Virtues on a lambrequin-edged lion pelt, on shaped squared bracket supports cast with acanthus and bun feet, remounted
39in. (99cm.) high