Baullier & Guyerdet, Paris, a good late 18th century white marble portico clock, the case with footed, rectangular base with gilt anthemion and palmette frieze, supporting two marble pilasters with canephores, each on a stepped plinth with gilt floral medallions, and supporting an entablature with foliate finials featuring palmettes, and flanking the cylindrical clock case with ornamental, gilt lambrequin and surmounted by a marble plinth with gilt basket containing leaves, fruit, and flowers, and cascading ivy, signed roman numeral white enamel dial with gilt hands, and 8 day, two train pendule de Paris movement, with silk thread suspension and striking on a bell, with gilt Eagle of Zeus pendulum
Baullier & Guyerdet, Paris, a good late 18th century white marble portico clock, the case with footed, rectangular base with gilt anthemion and palmette frieze, supporting two marble pilasters with canephores, each on a stepped plinth with gilt floral medallions, and supporting an entablature with foliate finials featuring palmettes, and flanking the cylindrical clock case with ornamental, gilt lambrequin and surmounted by a marble plinth with gilt basket containing leaves, fruit, and flowers, and cascading ivy, signed roman numeral white enamel dial with gilt hands, and 8 day, two train pendule de Paris movement, with silk thread suspension and striking on a bell, with gilt Eagle of Zeus pendulum
A fine late 18th century swinging lyre mantel clock by Breant
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Breant a Paris, a fine late 18th century swinging lyre mantel clock, on a rectangular, gilt bronze plinth below an oval, blue – gray and white marble base with interlocking circle, bead, and floral mounts, the top of the base with gilt acanthus supporting a lyre form, beaded frame crowned with a floral festoon and Medusa mask, the swinging clock with knife edge suspended gridiron, roman numeral white enamel dial with open center, peripheral arabic date and five minute markers, engraved scissor and fleur de lis hands, blued steel date indicator, and 15 day two train movement, with skeletonized plates, pin wheel escapement, and striking the hours and half hour on a bell