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A FRENCH DIRECTOIRE MANTEL CLOCK
The bronze and white marble case surmounted by an ormolu figure of Cupid sharpening his darts on a grindstone, the base with rusticated pilaster uprights and a pair of river god masks issuing water into a pool, the plinth centred by a classical mask and anthemia flanked by Egyptian style recumbent lions; the enamel dial with arabic numerals, the central calendar marked for a thirty day month (the 18th cnetury decimal calendar), eight day French striking movement with silk suspension, fully automated on the hour with rotating grindstone, operating on a separate mechanism winding from the right side
59 cm high
The bronze and white marble case surmounted by an ormolu figure of Cupid sharpening his darts on a grindstone, the base with rusticated pilaster uprights and a pair of river god masks issuing water into a pool, the plinth centred by a classical mask and anthemia flanked by Egyptian style recumbent lions; the enamel dial with arabic numerals, the central calendar marked for a thirty day month (the 18th cnetury decimal calendar), eight day French striking movement with silk suspension, fully automated on the hour with rotating grindstone, operating on a separate mechanism winding from the right side
59 cm high
注意事項
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