Lot Essay
The C-couronné poinçon was a tax mark used on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749
Various Properties
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK with glazed circular Arabic-chaptered enamel dial with associated English watch movement signed D Blanchard LONDON, in a pierced scroll and rockwork surround supported in a scrolling tree with French soft-paste porcelain flowerheads, the asymmetrical pierced scroll and rockwork domed base with a figure of Autumn holding a bunch of grapes, the porcelain figure circa 1750, some flowerheads replaced, minor losses to tree, the ormolu struck with the C-couronné poinçon
Details
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK with glazed circular Arabic-chaptered enamel dial with associated English watch movement signed D Blanchard LONDON, in a pierced scroll and rockwork surround supported in a scrolling tree with French soft-paste porcelain flowerheads, the asymmetrical pierced scroll and rockwork domed base with a figure of Autumn holding a bunch of grapes, the porcelain figure circa 1750, some flowerheads replaced, minor losses to tree, the ormolu struck with the C-couronné poinçon
10¼in. (26cm.) high
10¼in. (26cm.) high