A French Napoleon III Sevres style porcelain inset ormolu and patinated bronze mantel clock Grignon-Meusnier, Paris, circa 1870 The eight-day circular two train countwheel striking movement with anchor escapement for regulation by a disc bob pendulum incorporating Brocot type regulation to suspension, the backplate stamped with serial number 3054 over additional number 5 8 and trademark GRIGNON-MEUSNIER, Paris, the circular white enamel Roman numeral dial signed GRIGNON-MEUSNIER, A PARIS to centre and with blued steel trefoil hands set behind a hinged bevel-glazed concentric bead cast bezel, the case of wide break-arch form with surmount cast as a basket containing fruiting vines and a pineapple flanked by a pair of patinated bronze reclining putti over dial flanked by a pair of shaped blue ground porcelain panels polychrome painted with cherubs within moulded surrounds, on generous breakfronted skirt base with repeating leaf cast ogee top moulding and inset floral lozenge painted porcelain panel within laurel cast surrounds over bead cast toupe feet, (lacking pendulum and bell), 34cm (13.5ins) high. Grignon-Meusnier were bronze founders established by Pierre Grignon in the mid-18th century. By circa 1860 the business was known as Grignon-Meusnier and worked from rue Charlot 60 in the heart of the clockmaking region of the city.
A French Napoleon III Sevres style porcelain inset ormolu and patinated bronze mantel clock Grignon-Meusnier, Paris, circa 1870 The eight-day circular two train countwheel striking movement with anchor escapement for regulation by a disc bob pendulum incorporating Brocot type regulation to suspension, the backplate stamped with serial number 3054 over additional number 5 8 and trademark GRIGNON-MEUSNIER, Paris, the circular white enamel Roman numeral dial signed GRIGNON-MEUSNIER, A PARIS to centre and with blued steel trefoil hands set behind a hinged bevel-glazed concentric bead cast bezel, the case of wide break-arch form with surmount cast as a basket containing fruiting vines and a pineapple flanked by a pair of patinated bronze reclining putti over dial flanked by a pair of shaped blue ground porcelain panels polychrome painted with cherubs within moulded surrounds, on generous breakfronted skirt base with repeating leaf cast ogee top moulding and inset floral lozenge painted porcelain panel within laurel cast surrounds over bead cast toupe feet, (lacking pendulum and bell), 34cm (13.5ins) high. Grignon-Meusnier were bronze founders established by Pierre Grignon in the mid-18th century. By circa 1860 the business was known as Grignon-Meusnier and worked from rue Charlot 60 in the heart of the clockmaking region of the city.
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