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A French Empire ormolu-mounted mantel clock, late 18th / early…
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Melbourne
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29-Nov-2020
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A French Empire ormolu-mounted mantel clock, late 18th / early 19th century signed Th. Gay, Hger du Roi, a Turin, the eight day silk suspension movement striking on a bell, the three inch enamel dial with Arabic hours and quarters set into a variegated grey marble casket on lions paw feet and a stepped base surmounted by the figure of a sleeping child in front of a pillar supporting an oval tablet with letters cut out in copper: 'Qui que tu soit reconnois un raitre. Il est Le Fu Ou Il doit l'etre', 40 cm high. Provenance: W.F.Bradshaw, 1985 The Owston Collection, Bonhams, Sydney, 25-26 June 2010, Lot 1173
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