C19th Italian carved alabaster mantel clock fitted with a French movement under a glass dome.
Italian carved alabaster clock case surmounted with a removable figure of Lorenzo de Medici after Michelangelo . The front fitted with a gilded clock face with decorative surround and Roman numeral markings, fitted with pierced decorative blackened steel hands. The polished white alabaster architecturally-inspired case with a well- carved detail edge , the rectangular case raised on block feet.
Fitted with an 8-day striking pendulum-driven movement signed by ''Gilliot a Paris'' . The movement not functioning and requires attention . Sold as a decorative clock in non-working order.
The seated figure of Lorenzo de Medici, known as ''Lorenzo Il Magnifico'' , Duke of Urbino , after the original marble sculpture by Michelangelo circa 1530
for Lorenzo''s tomb of in the Medici Chapel ,Florence, Italy. Here seated on a rectangular carved ''stone-work'' style base.
The whole raised on
...an ebonised wooden rounded-corner base and covered with a glass dome .
The alabaster clock case and figure with minor historic chips . The hand-blown glass dome in perfect condition.
An impressive scale decorative clock of architectural and classical form , possibly a souvenir from the European ''Grand Tour '' .
H (overall with dome) 27''
H (clock & figure) 21''
W 9''
D 6''
Italy c. 1870
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Internal Reference: ML 1905
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA625614
Dateline of this antique is 1870
Height is 60cm (23.6inches)Width is 23cm (9.1inches)Depth is 15cm (5.9inches)
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