Lot 212
LARGE GEORGE IV GILT BRONZE FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK, ARNOLD & DENT, LONDON, NO.524
CIRCA 1830
Auction: Day One | Wednesday 18 Feb at 10am | Lots 1 to 352
Description
the engine turned gilt dial with Roman numerals, signed ‘Arnold, & Dent, London, No.524’ with a subsidiary ‘Slow/Fast’ dial issuing from the XII numeral, the finely cast and chased architectural case surmounted by two large figures of Time (Chronos) and Victory (Nike) supported by acanthus scroll corbels, the dial within a bezel of a snake biting its tail, the moulded stepped base with acanthus scroll bracket feet centred by a sunburst mask, the single train chain fusee timepiece movement with signed and numbered backplate
Dimensions
62cm high, 51cm wide, 17cm deep
Footnote
John Roger Arnold and Edward John Dent were in partnership between 1830 and 1840.