An impressive Louis XIV-style gilt-mounted turtleshell clock and pedestal, French, circa 1850 8¾-inch twelve-piece enamel cartouche dial signed Helme A Paris, the early 18th Century movement similarly signed with numbered outside count wheel and altered anchor escapement, quarter repeating work removed, the case veneered with red shell, the domed cresting surmounted by a cockerel and further decorated with flower garlands and masks, the lower section with glazed concave sides, a plumed mask at the front, on winged term feet, resting on a similarly decorated plinth and raised on a tapered pedestal with foliate boulle inlay to the front and with similar mounts Clock 112cm. 44in. high Pedestal 132cm. 52in. high
An impressive Louis XIV-style gilt-mounted turtleshell clock and pedestal, French, circa 1850 8¾-inch twelve-piece enamel cartouche dial signed Helme A Paris, the early 18th Century movement similarly signed with numbered outside count wheel and altered anchor escapement, quarter repeating work removed, the case veneered with red shell, the domed cresting surmounted by a cockerel and further decorated with flower garlands and masks, the lower section with glazed concave sides, a plumed mask at the front, on winged term feet, resting on a similarly decorated plinth and raised on a tapered pedestal with foliate boulle inlay to the front and with similar mounts Clock 112cm. 44in. high Pedestal 132cm. 52in. high
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