DESCRIPTION: (3Pc) French Empire mantel clock featuring two sculptural foliage garnitures each with two arms, roman numerals at the white dial and bronze hands, decorated with open scroll and foliage designs throughout, sculptural spears and shield medallion at the lower face, and completed by a boy with a walking stick embraced by a girl at his back alongside a hat on a rock. Sits on an ebonized tiered oval wood base.
CIRCA: 19th Cent. possibly older
ORIGIN: France
DIMENSIONS: H: 16.25" W: 14.75" Depth: 5", & Base H: 2.87" W: 7.5" L: 17.75"
Lebaury a Paris, a good French Empire gilt and patinated bronze figural mantel clock, the stepped, patinated base on anthemion ornamented paw feet, surbase with gilt heart and flower decorated molding and mounted with three interlocking wreaths and flanking swords, surmounted by a patinated, winged male figure, studying a gilt scroll atop the architectural clock enclosure, the base and cornice with foliate ornamented moldings, and the front with torcheres and suspended festoon, signed, gilt roman numeral dial with blued steel Breguet style hands, 8 day, two train pendule de Paris movement with silk thread suspension, striking the hours and half hour on a bell, the back plate signed "Hemon a Paris"
A good French Empire gilt and patinated bronze figural mantel clock signed Lebaury a Paris
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Lebaury a Paris, a good French Empire gilt and patinated bronze figural mantel clock, the stepped, patinated base on anthemion ornamented paw feet, surbase with gilt heart and flower decorated molding and mounted with three interlocking wreaths and flanking swords, surmounted by a patinated, winged male figure, studying a gilt scroll atop the architectural clock enclosure, the base and cornice with foliate ornamented moldings, and the front with torcheres and suspended festoon, signed, gilt roman numeral dial with blued steel Breguet style hands, 8 day, two train pendule de Paris movement with silk thread suspension, striking the hours and half hour on a bell, the back plate signed "Hemon a Paris"