Lot 156
  • 156

A gilt-bronze-mounted white marble clock, the dial and movement signed Meyer à Paris Louis XVI, late 18th century

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • approx 56cm. high, 40cm. wide; 1ft. 10in., 1ft. 3¾in.
with a ribbon-tied white enamel dial with Roman numerals within an arched case surmounted by a neo-classical urn, draped with acorn and oak leaf swags, flanked by scrolled corbels, the sides with further fruiting and foliate swags, on a shaped white marble base, the front with a panel depicting addorsed eagle heads terminating in scrolling foliage and cornucopiae, flanked by roundels enclosing flowerheads, on tapering lunette and leaf cast feet