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French-Empire-ormolu-bronze-bon sauvage-matelot-antique clock-mantel clock

A French Empire ormolu and bronze ‘au bon sauvage’ mantel clock, circa 1800

Description

8.3-cm enamel dial with Roman numerals signed L. Debeeff à Aix Le Chapelle and Breguet hands, 8-day spring driven movement with anchor escapement and silk suspended pendulum, countwheel half hour striking on a bell, fitted in a ormolu case shaped as a cotton bale, flanked by a sailor and on the other side by an anchor, ore and drum, rectangular base with canted corners with a fine relief showing putti unloading a ship, the whole raised on drum shaped feet.

Sizes

(Height) 37 cm (Width) 30.5 cm (Depth) 11 cm
(Height) 14.6 in (Width) 12 in (Depth) 4.3 in

Price

sold

Signature

L. Debeeff à Aix Le Chapelle

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