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A rare Meissen clock and stand circa 1740-50
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- crossed swords in underglaze-blue to both pieces
- clock and stand: 32.5cm., 12¾in.
set on four scroll feet, each side enclosing a hunting scene set in moulded scrollwork cartouches picked out in gold, a large deer's head moulded just below the contemporary dial, the stand with four similar cartouches, each corner of the stand with a moulded hound's head, the top decorated with puce scrollwork, the movement early 20th century
Catalogue Note
A similar clock was sold by Sotheby's Zurich, 8th June 2000, lot 615.