A REGENCY ORMOLU AND BRONZE-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE MANTEL TIMEPIECE
By VB, 25 Grafton Street, Soho, circa 1825, after a design by François Rémond
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£400 - £700
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Hammer price:
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£650 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
The drum-shaped case surmounted by an outstretched eagle, above the skeltonised dial, with blued steel Breguet moon hands, with an ormolu-cast chapter ring and outer lappet cast bezel, flanked to each side by a seated maiden holding and reading a book, the lefthand book engraved VB / Fecit No. 25 / Grafton Street / SOHO, the drum-shaped chain fusée movement with anchor escapement
29cm high
The prototype design for this clock is after a drawing by François Rémond, Paris, circa 1785, see Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munchen 1986, p.295.
CONDITION REPORT
In unrestored original condition. No pendulum or key.
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