This ‘miscellaneous’ page features unique items which do not quite fit another category. For example an Indian silver model of the Ramghandram hostel which lights up, a pair of elegant fencers, a mahogany cheese coaster and a rare pair of magnificent Italian alabaster jardinières.
This oval white marble clock is applied with high quality bronze and ormolu mounts. The base encloses a French 8-day, twin barrel movement with a silk suspension and a count wheel strike on the bell. The ormolu dial has Roman numerals in blue and white enamels and is set within a rope border surrounded by naval panoplies and a coronet. The sides are embellished with putti with double fish-tails holding a long shell horn in each hand. On top of the clock is a bronze group of the dying Nelson collapsing into the arms of two sailors. With pendulum and key. Stamped on the back plate René à Paris.
English, with a French movement, circa 1840.
