Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Virtual Auction, 11 - 12 October 2021
Oriental Works of Art, Jewellery, Silver and Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
About this Item
A French gilt-metal and white marble portico mantel clock, 19th century
the 13,5cm white enamelled dial with Roman numerals and minute chapter ring, pierced hands, bell-striking silk suspension movement with pin wheel escapement, the drum case surmounted by a cherub astride a deer, the sides flanked by hunting maidens holding arrows and a bird, centred by a figure of a young man with his dog holding a rabbit in his right arm and a hunting horn in his left, raised on satyr masks and goat's hooves, the openwork reverse on conforming feet, raised on a rectangular white marble base, the front inlaid with a frieze of anthemions, raised on adjustable gilt-metal flat bun feet, 58,5cm high
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