South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 8 October 2012
Session 2
Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 35 000
About this Item
A Victorian gilt and silvered-brass agate-mounted clock garniture, English/French, 1871
the 9,5 enamel dial with roman numerals, with bell-striking Japy Frères movement and Brocot escapement, the case of oval form surmounted by a merboy blowing his horn, the shoulders with pierced and engraved handles, the front applied with banded-agate cabochons on foliate and shell engraved reserves, and with a gartered crown above XII, the whole raised on a rectangular stepped base, centred by a shell and coral flanked by hippocampi, on toupie feet, stamped registration mark, the back plate stamped 298, 50cm high, and a pair of conforming three-light candelabra, 44cm high, each with velvet-lined giltwood base, ebonised oval stand on bun feet; with three glass domes, the tallest 62cm high
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