Harcroft House Sale
Live Auction, 18 November 2019
Session Two
Lot Estimate
ZAR 9 000 - 12 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 34 140
About this Item
Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France
A French 'Sèvres' porcelain and gilt-bronze mounted clock garniture, circa 1850
the 8cm circular porcelain dial with Roman hour numeral cartouches, enamelled to the centre with butterflies and flowerheads and applied with jewelled markers, striking the full and half hour on a bell, the backplate stamped PARIS 22078 7 and 44, the dial with beaded frame, surmounted by two winged mythical beasts flanked by baluster finials, the stepped hood surmounted by a flower-filled urn finial, the shaped cartouche painted with a courting couple in a landscape, the gadrooned sides flanked by urns, each painted with figures in a landscape, on a stepped and foliate shaped plinth base and paw and toupie-shaped feet, and a pair of urns, en suite,each plaque inscribed Picard Ratel 1904 K to the reverse, the clock 44cm high
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