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Important portico clock in white Carrara marble, mercury-gilded bronze and brown patina.
On a marble base with projections, and decorated with a gilded bronze frieze decorated with cherubs playing music on clouds, two scrolled consoles decorated with flowering foliage and sunflower flowers support the movement. These consoles bear applied caryatids draped in the antique style.
At the cushion, two cupids, each holding a garland of flowering foliage, frame an eagle with outstretched wings.
The clock is placed and presented on a turquin blue marble counter-base
The wire movement strikes the hours and half-hours.
Parisian work from the Louis XVI period.
The movement is in perfect working order, serviced and guaranteed by a watchmaker.
Height: 59cm.
Width: 41.5cm
Depth: 10 cm.
Height with counter-base: 62 cm.
Worldwide delivery on quote.
This pendulum should be compared to the similar model reproduced in the work of Pierre Kjellberg, "Encyclopedia of the French pendulum", page 201.
Ref: FN2Y6UN942