A FRENCH BRASS CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE
Circa 1900
The case with a reeded handle above four turned finials, and foliate bands between the glass panels, the cream enamel chapter ring within a pierced and engraved blind fret panel, the movement with…
Hammer price:
£90
Estimate: £80 - £120
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A FRENCH BRASS FILIGREE PANEL DECORATED STRIKING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH PUSH…
By Achille Brocot, Circa 1885
The case with a reeded handle above a moulded frieze, with a finely engraved and pierced mask with circular white enamel dial detailed John Hall & Co Paris, with blue Roman chapters and blued steel…
Hammer price:
£600
Estimate: £400 - £600
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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AN UNUSUAL FRENCH GILT BRASS STRIKING CALENDAR SKELELTONISED MANTEL CLOCK…
By Grignon Meusnier, Paris, No. 117, Circa 1855
The drum-shaped case with a shaped carrying handle, above 3 3/4in white enamel chapter ring, signed, with visible front plate and escapement, blued steel Breguet moon hands, with three subsidiary…
Hammer price:
£950
Estimate: £200 - £400
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A FRENCH GILT METAL AND SÈVRES-STYLE PORCELAIN-MOUNTED MANTEL CLOCK
By LeRoy & Fils, Palais Royal, Galerie Montpellier 13-15, Paris and 296 Regent Street, London, Circa 1870
Modelled with two cherubs, one holding a staff, the other seated on a rock with a fishing net and a basket of fish at his feet, on a naturalistic base, the lower part centred by the clock with a…
Hammer price:
£160
Estimate: £100 - £200
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A FRENCH GILT METAL AND SÈVRES STYLE PORCELAIN-MOUNTED MANTEL CLOCK
By LeRoy & Fils, Gallerie Monpensier 13-15, A Paris and 296 Regent Street, London, No 5933, Circa 1880
Modelled as a seated lady, her right arm resting on the drum-shaped case, the 3 1/2in circular convex enamelled dial with blue Roman chapters, above a naturalistic cast base, on spreading plinth…
Hammer price:
£350
Estimate: £300 - £500
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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AN ORMOLU RESTAURATION MANTEL CLOCK
By Shatillon Guyerdet A Paris, Circa 1830
Modelled with a horse and a figure of Cupid, on a stepped plinth, above the 3 1/2in signed dial with engine-turned centre, blued steel Breguet moon hands, within a rosette and laurel-cast bezel and…
Hammer price:
£400
Estimate: £200 - £400
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A LOUIS-PHILIPPE ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY-INLAID MANTEL CLOCK
By Henry Marc, Paris, Circa 1845
The rectangular case with a gilt cast carrying handle, above a glass panel, the front and sides inlaid with a foliate design, on a plinth base, with 3 1/4in circular white enamel dial (restored),…
Hammer price:
£140
Estimate: £60 - £80
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MANTEL CLOCK
By Cronier A Paris, circa 1790
Modelled as a pair of tapering columns, each with a turned finial and sconce, supporting a drum surmounted by a figure of a standing pagod, above the signed 3 1/2in circular white enamel dial with…
Hammer price:
£800
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
By Royer Fils, Paris, circa 1815
Modelled with a standing figure of Virgil in classical robes, supporting a panel engraved Les Georgiques / L’eneide, beside a laurel wreath and scroll, the signed gilt engine-turned dial with Roman…
Hammer price:
£420
Estimate: £400 - £600
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A RARE LATE LOUIS XV AND LATER ORMOLU-MOUNTED, TOOLED AND PAINTED LEATHER…
The case by Balthazar Lieutaud, the associated movement by David-Frédéric Dubois, the dial detailed Le Roy, Paris
The case of shaped outline and surmounted by a berried twin-handled urn, above downswept sides with scrolling foliate mounts, decorated all over with golden carp on a lattice-work background, the 8in…
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A FRENCH GILT METAL AND PATINATED GARNITURE
In the Chinoiserie style, By Achille Brocot, Paris, Circa 1880
The clock with a stepped pediment and large central finial and a smaller finial to each corner, above the dial panel raised in high relief with a procession of figures, below the 3 1/2in circular…
Hammer price:
£700
Estimate: £400 - £600
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
By Vauchar, Paris, circa 1815
Modelled with two students reading, seated each on a stool, a rectangular ‘bookcase’ behind containing the clock, with 3 3/4in white enamel dial signed Vauchar Elve de Breguet, A PARIS, with blued…
Hammer price:
£2,600
Estimate: £300 - £500
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED STAINED TORTOISESHELL AND BOULLE-WORK MANTEL CLOCK
In the Louis XIV style, by Deniere, Paris, circa 1890
The domed pediment with an urn surmount on tripod base, above foliate swags suspended from rams’ masks, the 6 1/2in ormolu and enamel dial with blued steel hands and convex glass, between projecting…
Hammer price:
£1,400
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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SIR GEORGE AIRY'S TRANSIT OF VENUS 1874 EXPEDITION - A VICTORIAN BRASS…
By Charles Frodsham, 84 Strand, London, No. 3178, Circa 1860
In a two-tier brass-bound rosewood box (missing hinged upper lid), with glazed observation panel, the front with circular maker's ivory roundel, above a shaped brass escutcheon and further ivory…
Hammer price:
£4,800
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A REGENCY ORMOLU AND BRONZE-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE MANTEL TIMEPIECE
By VB, 25 Grafton Street, Soho, circa 1825, after a design by François Rémond
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…
Hammer price:
£650
Estimate: £400 - £700
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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A FINE AND RARE EARLY GEORGE II EBONISED QUARTER REPEATING VERGE BRACKET…
By Quare & Horseman, London, No. 304, Circa 1730
The case with an inverted bell-top and knopped brass handle, above a moulded cornice, with glazed panel door and a glazed panel to each side, with glazed rear door, on a stepped base and block feet,…
Estimate: £15,000 - £25,000
5 December 2024
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5 December 2024
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Atlante dell' America Contenente le Migliori Carte Geografiche, e…
Atlante dell' America Contenente le Migliori Carte Geografiche, e Topografiche delle Principali Città, Laghi, Fiumi, e Fortezze del Nuovo Mondo Con una succinta Relazione dei diversi Stablimenti…
Hammer price:
£800
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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BERLESE, Abbé Laurent (1784-1863). Iconographie du Genre Caméllia, Paris,…
BERLESE, Abbé Laurent (1784-1863). Iconographie du Genre Caméllia ou Description et Figures des Camellia les Plus Beaux at les Plus Rares Peints d' après Nature dans les Serres et sous la direction…
Hammer price:
£600
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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BINDING - André FRÉNAUD (1907-93). Soleil Irréductible, Neuchatel, 1946.…
BINDING - André FRÉNAUD (1907-93). Soleil Irréductible. Neuchatel & Paris: Ides et Calendes, 1946. 4to (252 x 190mm). Printed in red and black, printer's device at the end. FINELY BOUND BY DANIEL…
Hammer price:
£400
Estimate: £500 - £800
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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BINDING - Liturgia, London, 1670, 8vo, engraved portrait of Charles II and…
BINDING - Liturgia, seu liber precum communium, et administrationis sacramentorium, alirumque rituum atque ceremoniarum ecclesiæ, juxta usum ecclesiæ Anglicanæ: unà cum psalterio seu psalmis Davidis.…
Hammer price:
£550
Estimate: £300 - £500
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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BINDING - Petites Fleurs de Saint François d' Assise, Paris, 1920, 4to,…
BINDING - Petites Fleurs de Saint François d' Assise. Traduite de l' Italien par André Pératé. Paris: "Les Presses de l' Art Catholique," 1920. 4to (278 x 210mm). Printed in red and black, woodcut…
Hammer price:
£550
Estimate: £200 - £300
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959). An important correspondence comprising c.120…
BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959). An important correspondence comprising c.120 autograph and typed letters, signed ("Ernest Bloch"), to Ernest Chapman, many with his replies, San Francisco, Paris, Châtel,…
Hammer price:
£850
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
4 December 2024
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4 December 2024
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BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). It Catches my Heart in its Hands, New Orleans…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). It Catches my Heart in its Hands. New & Selected Poems 1955-1963. Introduction by John William Corrington. Gypsy Lou Series No. 1: A Loujon Press Award Book. New Orleans…
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
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CHINA - Athanasius KIRCHER (1602-80). La Chine, Amsterdam, 1670, folio,…
CHINA - Athanasius KIRCHER (1602-80). La Chine ... Illustrée De plusieurs Monuments Tant Sacrés que Profanes, et de quantité de Recherchés de la Nature & de l' Art. A Quoy on à adjousté de nouveau…
Hammer price:
£850
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT
4 December 2024
, 17:00 GMT