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a charles x ormolu mantle clock
The circular enamelled dial within a stiff-leaf bezel and above a brule-parfum, within a rectangular case surmounted by an urn, a tazza and a laurel-wreath, flanked by a maiden to the left and by a pedestal surmounted by an urn to the right, on a panelled base centred by a merry company within a circlet issuing scrolling acanthus and flower-heads, on turned reeded feet, with an ebonised socle and a glass dome
38cm. high x 27cm. wide x 10.5cm. deep
The circular enamelled dial within a stiff-leaf bezel and above a brule-parfum, within a rectangular case surmounted by an urn, a tazza and a laurel-wreath, flanked by a maiden to the left and by a pedestal surmounted by an urn to the right, on a panelled base centred by a merry company within a circlet issuing scrolling acanthus and flower-heads, on turned reeded feet, with an ebonised socle and a glass dome
38cm. high x 27cm. wide x 10.5cm. deep