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Briant a Paris. A marble and ormolu mantel clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the ho
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Briant a Paris. A marble and ormolu mantel clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half hours on a bell, the backplate stamped with the mark of the roulant blanc maker 'Etienne Maxant, Paris', the white enamel dial has black Roman numerals, Arabic outer numerals and signed by the maker 'Briant a Paris', with decorative pierced and engraved gilt brass hands, the ormolu pillar case having classical female figures draped either side, with various ormolu mounts and a frieze to the front depicting putti within a scientific setting, surmounted by a classical urn, all standing on a white marble base inset with further ormolu mounts, height 57cm. * Etienne Maxant is recorded as working at Rue de Saintonge, Paris, in the mid 19th century.
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Briant a Paris. A marble and ormolu mantel clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half hours on a bell, the backplate stamped with the mark of the roulant blanc maker 'Etienne Maxant, Paris', the white enamel dial has black Roman numerals, Arabic outer numerals and signed by the maker 'Briant a Paris', with decorative pierced and engraved gilt brass hands, the ormolu pillar case having classical female figures draped either side, with various ormolu mounts and a frieze to the front depicting putti within a scientific setting, surmounted by a classical urn, all standing on a white marble base inset with further ormolu mounts, height 57cm. * Etienne Maxant is recorded as working at Rue de Saintonge, Paris, in the mid 19th century.
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