Lot 9
  • 9

An Austiran enamel and silver "elephant" clock, probably HR monogram for Hermann Ratzerdorfer, Vienna, third quarter 19th century

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • height 8 in. (20.4cm)
the base painted with four mythological lovers: Jupiter (as Diana) and Callisto, Leda and the Swan, Venus and Adonis, and Jupiter and Io, below caparisoned silver elephant, the clock painted with another pair of lovers and two nymphs bathing, marked on base rim, fitted with an earlier verge movement signed Frs. de Roches & Pr. Eynouf