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Lot 293
Description:
A Fine Napoleon III Gilt Bronze Figural Mantel Clock, c. 1870, retailed by Tiffany & Co., New York, the dial marked "A. Brocot & Delettrez/ Paris", in the Rococo taste and decorated with a hunting motif of hounds, a fox, pheasants, a snake and a lizard, surmounted by a putto holding a bag of gunpowder and sounding his horn, raised on tortoise feet, the patinated bronze dial marked by Tiffany, with gilt snake-form hands, height 18 1/2 in., width 22 in., depth 10 in.
- Notes: Note: Achille Brocot, inventor of the Brocot movement, and Jean Baptiste Delettrez formed a partnership based in Paris that lasted from 1851 to 1878. They sold some of the finest clocks available at the time, combining superior mechanical and decorative workmanship.
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September 11, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
New Orleans, LA, US
Neal Auction Company
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