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an ormolu and bronze blackamoor mantel clock
The drum case surmounted by a huntress wearing a leafy dress, pearl earrings and strands of beads around her neck and arms. an arrow and spear in her hands and a quiver with arrows on her back, flanked by a palm tree and a crawling reptile, the spreading breakfront oblong base mounted with playing putti to the centre and floral garlands to the sides, on toupie feet, with beaded bezel to the white enamelled Roman dial signed Cardinaux à Paris, metal moon hands, the twin-going barrel movement with silk-suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike on a bell, re-gilt, restored, remounted and constructed from elements from different dates
46cm. high x 37cm. wide x 24cm. deep
The drum case surmounted by a huntress wearing a leafy dress, pearl earrings and strands of beads around her neck and arms. an arrow and spear in her hands and a quiver with arrows on her back, flanked by a palm tree and a crawling reptile, the spreading breakfront oblong base mounted with playing putti to the centre and floral garlands to the sides, on toupie feet, with beaded bezel to the white enamelled Roman dial signed Cardinaux à Paris, metal moon hands, the twin-going barrel movement with silk-suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike on a bell, re-gilt, restored, remounted and constructed from elements from different dates
46cm. high x 37cm. wide x 24cm. deep