AN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN MOUNTED MANTEL CLOCK MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER the eight day watch...

AN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN MOUNTED MANTEL CLOCK

MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER

the eight day watch movement with a pierced and engraved cock and signed 'J. Jolly a Paris', the circular enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, signed 'Jean Le Noir a Paris', the case decorated with mid-18th century Meissen porcelain figures, with a fruit seller modelled by J. F. Eberlein, a putto with a basket of flowers, a campana shape urn, the whole surmounted by a pug dog seated on a cushion and with ormolu branches of porcelain flowers

31.8cm high, 24cm wide

PROVENANCE

Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918)

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House

LITERATURE

Charles Davis, A Description of the Works of Art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, 1884 p.231, no.256.