A RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1820

Closed17 March 2011

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GBP 6,875

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1820
CASE: a standing figure of Diana and a fawn flanking the clock case modelled as a tree stump with entwined serpent, on marble and lanceolate leaf-moulded plinth and lion paw feet DIAL: white enamel dial, blued steel Breguet hands MOVEMENT: with twin barrels, anchor escapement and countwheel strike on bell; pendulum, winding key
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 21¾ in (55.5 cm.) wide; 9½ in. 24 cm.) deep

Specialist note

See the Spanish Royal Collection (Catalogo de Relojes del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1987, p.319) for a Siena marble and patinated bronze clock of closely related design.