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Lot 219
Sale 5036 - English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Oct 8, 2013
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$5,000 -
8,000
Price Realized
$2,400
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Fine Louis XIV red tortoiseshell and gilt bronze mounted bracket clock 18th century and later, thuret, paris
The sarcophagus-shaped top with six urn and flame finials over shaped case, the elaborate gilt-bronze face mounted with circular dial with inset porcelain plaques painted with Roman numerals above a scrollwork cartouche with twin caryatid figures, the double countwheel strike movement with silk suspension and three bells, dial and movement signed Thuret Paris, raised on toupie feet.
H: 21 1/2, W: 12 1/2, D: 5 1/2 in.