A decorative early 20th century 400 day mantel clock with champleve enamel ornament

A decorative early 20th century 400 day mantel clock with champleve enamel ornament

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Germany, a decorative early 20th century 400 day mantel clock, the bow front, brass, six glass case with green onyx base, having a blue and white champleve enamel molding and feet, fluted columns with champleve bases and Corinthian capitals, and the top with champleve molding to match the base, molded green onyx plinth, and champleve ornamented oval urn, arabic numeral white enamel dial with blued steel spade hands, champleve bezel, floral festoons, and marked "Anniversary" above 12:00, and "Trade Mark Registered" beneath 6:00, year going movement with dead beat escapement and gilt, disc type torsion pendulum. This clock was the personal property of William E. Sessions, President of the Sessions Clock Company and was in the library of his mansion on Bellevue Avenue, Bristol, CT until the 1970s.