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a french bronze mantel clock, c.1870
the movement amusingly mounted with a draped drum supported by the figure of a naked and smiling young boy wearing a paper hat embellished with a feather and holding the drum stick to his back, opposing the figure of another naked crying youth, shown struggling to attain the instrument, the dial with enamelled Roman numerals, the twin going-barrel movement with a key and pendulumn, the group supported on a verde antico marble plinth mounted in ormolu, on toupie feet
25½in. (65cm.) high, 16in. (40.5cm.) wide
the movement amusingly mounted with a draped drum supported by the figure of a naked and smiling young boy wearing a paper hat embellished with a feather and holding the drum stick to his back, opposing the figure of another naked crying youth, shown struggling to attain the instrument, the dial with enamelled Roman numerals, the twin going-barrel movement with a key and pendulumn, the group supported on a verde antico marble plinth mounted in ormolu, on toupie feet
25½in. (65cm.) high, 16in. (40.5cm.) wide