WEEKLY ESTATE & COLLECTABLE AUCTION Monday, 12 November 2018 - 4:00 PM start
A mid-19thC quality French architectural ormolu mantel clock
Realised: $1,400 plus premium
Lot Details
the enamel dial with cobalt blue Roman numerals highlighted with gilt, the quality French silk suspension movement striking on a bell, the dial named 'Raingo Frères A Paris' within a drum housing atop a rectangular form including classical figures, animal and portrait masks, swags and double fancy columns flanking the finely hand painted porcelain panel of a kneeling Madonna with two children within a vast landscape including a distant town. complete with pendulum and key, the front glass dial loose. Provenance: Ex. a Tauranga estate including a 1998 insurance valuation. 290 x 120 x 510mm.
