Lot 1
A mid 18th Century French Boulle Bracket Clock, the arched case with detachable panelled pediment, surmounted by bronzed figure of Old Father Thyme, (scythe lacking), over cast bronze mounts, with tortoiseshell and brass inlaid detail, with glazed side panels and hinged front door, with applied detail of Venus, with a checkerboard internal base and floral and foliate decorated back door, to a 10” gilt dial, with outside minutes scale and applied Roman enamel lozenges, over a separate enamel panel, signed ‘F H Duchesne A Paris’, to a square brass movement, signed ‘Pia, Paris’, united by four baluster spindle columns, with anchor escapement and count wheel strike on a bell, height 37” (ILLUSTRATED PAGE 3)
