AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE 'JEWELLED' COBALT-BLUE GROUND THREE-PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE 'JEWELLED' COBALT-BLUE GROUND THREE-PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE 'JEWELLED' COBALT-BLUE GROUND THREE-PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The clock of scrolled double-bracket form, surmounted with an urn-shaped vase and cover with berry finial, lion-mask terminals and heart-shaped loop handles, painted with a putto on a bed on roses frolicking among clouds, within a 'jewelled' shaped-oval cartouche, the shaped-rectangular enamelled clock-face with Roman numerals, painted with Cupid firing an arrow, a maiden and putto below, flanked by berried laurel garlands, gilt and 'jewelled' with stylised flowerheads and a trumpet-shaped flowerhead supporting a selection of musicl instruments to each side, above 'jewelled' panels of flowerheads amd leafy scrolls, on eight feet, four of which moulded with acanthus and berries, and two tapering square-section candelabra applied with ormolu ram's head terminals suspending tasselled swags, with four leaf-molded nozzles and scones and a fifth adapted for electricity, on rectangular leaf-molded supports with scrolled bracket feet
The clock 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high, the candelabra 22 in. (56 cm.) high (3)

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