AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, BRONZE AND CAMPAN MELANGE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1805, BY KINABLE PALAIS ROYAL NO.131
The white enamel dial with Roman chapters and blued steel moon hands, signed Kinable Palais Royal No.131, lacking seconds hand, the twin- barrel movement with pin-wheel escapement on the backplate, later pendulum, hour and half hour-strike on a bell, set within a canted case surmounted by an urn finial and flanked by a classical maiden lamenting over a broken water carrier, Cupid in attendance the other side, the base of the case panelled with rockwork and with a leopard-mask fountain to the base, on a palmette-moulded stepped plinth and breakfront rectangular campan mélangé marble plinth applied with Cupid in a swan-drawn chariot flanked by palmette arabesques, on bun feet
21 in. (53.5 cm.) high; 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) wide; 7½ in. (19 cm.) deep
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, BRONZE AND CAMPAN MELANGE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1805, BY KINABLE PALAIS ROYAL NO.131
The white enamel dial with Roman chapters and blued steel moon hands, signed Kinable Palais Royal No.131, lacking seconds hand, the twin- barrel movement with pin-wheel escapement on the backplate, later pendulum, hour and half hour-strike on a bell, set within a canted case surmounted by an urn finial and flanked by a classical maiden lamenting over a broken water carrier, Cupid in attendance the other side, the base of the case panelled with rockwork and with a leopard-mask fountain to the base, on a palmette-moulded stepped plinth and breakfront rectangular campan mélangé marble plinth applied with Cupid in a swan-drawn chariot flanked by palmette arabesques, on bun feet
21 in. (53.5 cm.) high; 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) wide; 7½ in. (19 cm.) deep
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