A FRENCH LOUIS XV CORNE VERTE AND ORMOLU MOUNTED CLOCK AND BRACKET

A FRENCH LOUIS XV CORNE VERTE AND ORMOLU MOUNTED CLOCK AND BRACKET

BY FESTEAU, PARIS, MID-18TH CENTURY

the brass eight day movement with an outside count wheel and striking on a bell, the convex white enamel dial with black Roman hours and Arabic five minutes, inscribed to the centre 'FESTEAU A PARIS' and behind a convex glass door, the case with an urn finial above a waisted body, with glazed pendulum aperture and side panes, on foliate cabriole legs, with a conforming corne verte bracket with similar mounts, with pendulum (2)

88cm high, 36.5cm wide, 18cm deep

Provenance

From the Estate of a Collector, Heath House, Hampshire.

Catalogue Note

Jacues-François Feasteau, mâitre in 1751.