French porcelain two train mantel clock, the Pons movement w...

Hammer

£400

French porcelain two train mantel clock, the Pons movement with silk suspension and outside countwheel striking on the hour and half hours on a bell stamped no. 1166, the 3.5" silvered dial within an ornate decorated case painted with a romantic cartouche beneath the dial and with similar painted decoration to the back, the sides painted and gilded with stylised flowering foliage on a black ground, supported upon a canted stepped base decorated in relief with a continuous band of foliage, surmounted by a flat pediment, 12.5" high (pendulum)