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A LOUIS-PHILIPPE ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
The ring dial with Roman chapters, the centre with pierced scrolling acanthus and flowerheads issuing palmette leaves, within a lyre-shaped body with acanthus leaves to the angles, surmounted by two swans and the uprights with palmette decorations and with inscriptions HOMERE, VIRGILE, CORNEILLE, and RACINE within a circle of stars and surmounted by griffin heads, centred by Apollo's mask within a lotus-leaf wreath on scrolling foliage, the pendulum with patera, on an acanthus and lotus-leaf rim and rectangular plinth, on block feet with flowerhead flanked by anthemia, the movement stamped 490 and the movement and pendulum variously inscribed with numerals and letters
27¼in. (69cm.) high
The ring dial with Roman chapters, the centre with pierced scrolling acanthus and flowerheads issuing palmette leaves, within a lyre-shaped body with acanthus leaves to the angles, surmounted by two swans and the uprights with palmette decorations and with inscriptions HOMERE, VIRGILE, CORNEILLE, and RACINE within a circle of stars and surmounted by griffin heads, centred by Apollo's mask within a lotus-leaf wreath on scrolling foliage, the pendulum with patera, on an acanthus and lotus-leaf rim and rectangular plinth, on block feet with flowerhead flanked by anthemia, the movement stamped 490 and the movement and pendulum variously inscribed with numerals and letters
27¼in. (69cm.) high