Richard et Cie, Paris, a gilt metal and porcelain clock garniture the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a bell, the backplate stamped with the trademark of the movement maker Japy Freres et Cie, along with the maker's mark for Richard et Cie, the initials RC either side of a winged serpent, and numbered 2114, the blue shaped porcelain dial having a white chapter ring with black Arabic hour numerals and painted decoration depicting a female mask within a scroll, with floral decoration and decorative brass hands, the gilt-metal case with flying pillars to the sides, with matching blue porcelain decoration and a matching panel to the lower front, the domed top with further decoration depicting a jester's head and surmounted by a floral finial, with cast mounts to the front, sides and top, with a pair of matching decorative painted blue porcelain side pieces having applied female head mounts to each piece, dolphin mounts to the base, the case and side pieces each stamped with the casemaker's name Mourey, height 40cm (clock) 33cm (side pieces). * Biography Richard et Cie of Rue de Bondy 32, Paris, were one of the most well known makers and retailers of clocks, with a showroom in Cannon Street, London.
Richard et Cie, Paris, a gilt metal and porcelain clock garniture the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a bell, the backplate stamped with the trademark of the movement maker Japy Freres et Cie, along with the maker's mark for Richard et Cie, the initials RC either side of a winged serpent, and numbered 2114, the blue shaped porcelain dial having a white chapter ring with black Arabic hour numerals and painted decoration depicting a female mask within a scroll, with floral decoration and decorative brass hands, the gilt-metal case with flying pillars to the sides, with matching blue porcelain decoration and a matching panel to the lower front, the domed top with further decoration depicting a jester's head and surmounted by a floral finial, with cast mounts to the front, sides and top, with a pair of matching decorative painted blue porcelain side pieces having applied female head mounts to each piece, dolphin mounts to the base, the case and side pieces each stamped with the casemaker's name Mourey, height 40cm (clock) 33cm (side pieces). * Biography Richard et Cie of Rue de Bondy 32, Paris, were one of the most well known makers and retailers of clocks, with a showroom in Cannon Street, London.
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