A Malchite Mounted Mantel Clock, French circa 1850.

3 and 3/4 inch enamel dial signed "Martin Baskett and Cie A Paris", similarly signed bell striking movement (bell lacking), the crisply cast case surmounted by a shallow urn with grape finial and above a bacchic mask, flanked by scrolling corbels and raised on a break-front plinth decorated with swags, the front inset with four panels of richly coloured malachite.

 

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