Lot 133
  • 133

A large boulle bracket clock and associated bracket circa 1745, Amyrauld

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Amyrauld
  • Clock: 90cm. 35½in. ; Bracket: 35.5cm. 19in. high
11-inch twenty-four piece enamel cartouche dial, the rectangular plated movement  signed Amyrauld a Paris with outside numbered countwheel and later Brocot escapement, the waisted case veneered with tortoiseshell inlaid with brass, boldly cast rococo cresting, outlined with leaf and shell mounts and with a male figure in 18th century dress seated on the lower door edge flanked by a sun mask, a cockerel and a pelt; the associated and earlier wall bracket applied with a mask and supported by four inward-turning  scrolls