A French ormolu, porcelain, tôle, and marble mantel clock Circa 1880 The white enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters and twin-train movement, inscribed Ch. Bouy Grandpierre & Cie/A Paris , within a drum case suspending ribbon-tied bellflowers, set on a curved balustrade, issuing scrolling leafy branches with ceramic flowerheads, supported on Ionic grey-veined marble columns, the oval naturalistic base cast with a flowering urn and a tree stump centred by a biscuit figure entitled LA CURIOSITE and inscribed LE RICHE , the base indistinctly stamped 18¼in. (46.3cm.) high
A French ormolu, porcelain, tôle, and marble mantel clock Circa 1880 The white enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters and twin-train movement, inscribed Ch. Bouy Grandpierre & Cie/A Paris , within a drum case suspending ribbon-tied bellflowers, set on a curved balustrade, issuing scrolling leafy branches with ceramic flowerheads, supported on Ionic grey-veined marble columns, the oval naturalistic base cast with a flowering urn and a tree stump centred by a biscuit figure entitled LA CURIOSITE and inscribed LE RICHE , the base indistinctly stamped 18¼in. (46.3cm.) high
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