THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, the glazed circular enamelled dial with Arabic chapters, concentric calendar ring, inner ring for day of week with its corresponding deity indicated by a double-ended blued steel hand, signed Giraud/A PARIS, the twin barrel movement with countwheel strike on bell, surmounted by an urn with two scrolling foliate handles and a floral finial on a plinth hung with fruiting floral and foliate swags and flanked by two further urns with floral finials to either side, the pendulum terminating in a female's mask within a sunburst, on two spreading columns with spirally-turned foliate mounts and flanked by foliate and fruiting scrolls surmounted by a flower filled vase, on a shaped socle with fields of foliate scrolls and on toupie feet, lacking the calendar hand, 19th Century

细节
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, the glazed circular enamelled dial with Arabic chapters, concentric calendar ring, inner ring for day of week with its corresponding deity indicated by a double-ended blued steel hand, signed Giraud/A PARIS, the twin barrel movement with countwheel strike on bell, surmounted by an urn with two scrolling foliate handles and a floral finial on a plinth hung with fruiting floral and foliate swags and flanked by two further urns with floral finials to either side, the pendulum terminating in a female's mask within a sunburst, on two spreading columns with spirally-turned foliate mounts and flanked by foliate and fruiting scrolls surmounted by a flower filled vase, on a shaped socle with fields of foliate scrolls and on toupie feet, lacking the calendar hand, 19th Century
20½in. (52cm.) high

拍品专文

A closely related clock in the Pavlovsk Palace is illustrated in Pavlovsk, Leningrad, 1976, illus. 119.