Lot Essay
A nearly identical clock was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 3 July 1986, lot 68.
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE QUARTER-STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
The circular enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, within a anthemion band and the case shaped as an oil lamp, with flaming spout and a maiden emerging from the handle holding a ewer, on a spreading circular plinth with gadrooned rim and stepped plinth on bun feet, lacking winder, with pendulum
16 in. (41 cm.) high
The circular enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, within a anthemion band and the case shaped as an oil lamp, with flaming spout and a maiden emerging from the handle holding a ewer, on a spreading circular plinth with gadrooned rim and stepped plinth on bun feet, lacking winder, with pendulum
16 in. (41 cm.) high