Sale 9180
New York
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27 May 1999
Price realised
USD 17,250
Estimate
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE-STAINED HORN BRACKET CLOCK Signed BISSON A PARIS, the movement plate engraved Pre. Bisson AParis, the case indistinctly stamped DU...JME, the reverse of enamelled dial signed decla/1747, circa 1747 The circular white enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings and pierced foliate ormolu hands, the movement with twin spring barrels, countwheel strike and silk-suspended pendulum, in a waisted case with a glazed door and foliate mounts, the concave-molded top mounted with an figure of a seated chinaman holding a parasol originally with a circular plinth, on a matching waisted bracket en suite 20in. (54cm.) high, 8in. (21cm.) wide
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