Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Mar 19, 2016

LOT 90

PORCELAIN & ORMOLU GARNITURE Promoli & Hausburg A Paris. Made circa 1865. Fine and elegant, Sevres-style porcelain-mounted gilt-brass, 8-day going, hour and half-hour striking mantel clock garniture with a pair of porcelain-mounted vases.

Elaborate gilt-brass case cast and chased with scrolls, swags and foliage, large scroll corners, the base with a winged gryphon at each front corner with paw feet, scroll back feet, centered with an oval porcelain panel decorated with two cherubs heads beneath a gilt-brass cherubs head, porcelain side panels decorated with finely painted flowers within gilt foliate border on a blue ground, arch top with a further floral painted porcelain panel, bird and fruit urn finial. The pair of vases decorated with vignettes of young ladies within a rococo gilt border on a blue ground. Circular white with painted radial gilt Roman numerals, the center with a painted floral garland, blue panel decorated with an oval vignette of a cherub beneath the dial within a gilt foliate border. Circular brass plates, going barrels for both trains, anchor escapement, pendulum with silk suspension, outside countwheel striking on a bell.