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A French gilt-bronze mounted scarlet lacquer and foliate cut-brass inlaid striking bracket clock, second half 19th century
The case of waisted form surmounted by the figure of an angel with trumpet and palm frond, with foliate cast mounts, on feet terminating in male and female heads, the glazed front door overlaid with a relief cast mount modelled as a bird amidst flowers, the dial with individual white enamel Roman cartouche chapters and incised outside Arabic five minutes, steel halberd hands, signed on an enamel plaque below VI Balthazar Paris, the twin barrel movement with strike on bell to pediment
42½in. (108cm.) high
The case of waisted form surmounted by the figure of an angel with trumpet and palm frond, with foliate cast mounts, on feet terminating in male and female heads, the glazed front door overlaid with a relief cast mount modelled as a bird amidst flowers, the dial with individual white enamel Roman cartouche chapters and incised outside Arabic five minutes, steel halberd hands, signed on an enamel plaque below VI Balthazar Paris, the twin barrel movement with strike on bell to pediment
42½in. (108cm.) high