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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND SÈVRES-STYLE PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK, designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner with the rectangular 'altar'-pedestal clock surmounted by a cassolette urn celebrating the 'Triumph of Love', with Greek-fret handles embellished with putti-masks and decorated with a putti wreathing medallion within a rectangualr panel, above a central 'arabesque' vestal-mask on the fretted 'ribbon-fold' cornice, the arched glazed panel door wreathed with a 'poetic' laurel baguette above flowered 'hollow' corners, the dial within a blue and gilt border, with two putti above, their companions below, one emblematical of the Muse of 'Poetry' and writing in a book, the side panels each with an oval portrait medallion with ribbon-tied floral festoons, the reverse panel door with a classical waterscape scene, the twin-train movement stamped S. Marti & Cie with gong strike, the plinth inset with tablets gilded with acanthus-scrolls and with rosettes above the palm-wrapped acanthus-bud feet, third quarter 19th century (damage & restorations to urn)

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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND SÈVRES-STYLE PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK, designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner with the rectangular 'altar'-pedestal clock surmounted by a cassolette urn celebrating the 'Triumph of Love', with Greek-fret handles embellished with putti-masks and decorated with a putti wreathing medallion within a rectangualr panel, above a central 'arabesque' vestal-mask on the fretted 'ribbon-fold' cornice, the arched glazed panel door wreathed with a 'poetic' laurel baguette above flowered 'hollow' corners, the dial within a blue and gilt border, with two putti above, their companions below, one emblematical of the Muse of 'Poetry' and writing in a book, the side panels each with an oval portrait medallion with ribbon-tied floral festoons, the reverse panel door with a classical waterscape scene, the twin-train movement stamped S. Marti & Cie with gong strike, the plinth inset with tablets gilded with acanthus-scrolls and with rosettes above the palm-wrapped acanthus-bud feet, third quarter 19th century (damage & restorations to urn)
26½in. (67.5cm.) high; 11in. (28cm.) wide; 8¼in. (21cm.) deep

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