AN ELECTROPLATE AND GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED FRENCH IVORY AND COBALT-BLUE GROUND MANTEL CLOCK
AN ELECTROPLATE AND GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED FRENCH IVORY AND COBALT-BLUE GROUND MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1880

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AN ELECTROPLATE AND GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED FRENCH IVORY AND COBALT-BLUE GROUND MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1880
In the Aesthetic taste, of regtangular form, conceived as a pagoda with buddhistic lion finial, gilt with butterflies and other insects hovering above blossoming branches within variant shaped surrounds, a long cartouche below the clockface painted with a landscape, all against a gilt bamboo background, the cast scrollwork base raised on four feet
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high

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