An Empire ormolu portico mantel clock | Christie's

Sale 2497

FURNITURE, CLOCKS, SCULPTURE AND WORKS OF ART

Amsterdam

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28 March 2001

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Lot 65

An Empire ormolu portico mantel clock

Price realised

NLG 3,760

Estimate

NLG 3,000 - NLG 4,000

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An Empire ormolu portico mantel clock
The white-enamelled Roman dial signed à Paris, the movement with silk-suspended sunburst pendulum and outside countwheel strike on a bell, flanked by hippocamp spandrels and with an interlaced tassle apron, on ring-turned spreading columns and a rectangular plinth base, on bell-shaped feet
34cm. high x 21cm. wide x 8cm. deep
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