Portico clock in alabaster and green-veined gray marble, ric - Lot 255

Portico clock in alabaster and green-veined gray marble, richly decorated with chased and gilded bronzes. The upper part is decorated with a fruit bowl underlined by garlands of flowers and flanked by two ribboned medallions housing antique-style figures in the taste of WEDGWOOD. The circular white enameled dial features black hours in Arabic numerals surrounded by polychrome festoons. The scrolled uprights are decorated with putti in term and punctuated with rosettes. The double-splayed base is embellished with applied scrapers and foliage. The whole is covered with friezes of strings of pearls and water leaves and rests on 4 small toupie feet. With key, stamp and sunburst pendulum. Late Louis XVI period. 51 x 40 x 11 cm. (minor accidents and missing parts, bronze elements to be refixed, medallions in the Wedgwood style to be revised).