A Good French Ormolu Mounted Kingwood and Mahogany Bracket Clock and Pedestal

A Good French Ormolu Mounted Kingwood and Mahogany Bracket Clock and Pedestal, In the Régence style, second half 19th Century, In the Régence style, second half 19th Century, case, surmounted with a cloud-borne cupid, circular cast brass dial with twelve enamel Roman numeral cartouches, bearing inscription, Julien Le Roy, , twin barrel movement with anchor escapement and outside countwheel striking on a bell, with glazed pendulum aperture below, the canted angles with four hermed caryatid male figures emblematic of the Continents, glazed sides, serpentine shaped base with scrolled feet; the hermed-pedestal of serpentine tapering outline, with a moulded shelf above is hung with a heroic medallion depicting the planetary sphere returned to Atlas by the labouring Hercules, above tapering panels cast with foliage, the canted angles cast with foliate brackets, claw feet, raised on a stepped plinth 250cm high

Stima:€11,944.32

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