$16,000
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Auction: October 7, 2014 11:00:00 AM EDT
The clock case in the form of breccia marble tablet with canted corners mounted with gilt bronze Arabic hours and star form minutes to form the dial above gilt foliate border, raised on lion's paw feet, the twin handled red breccia di aleppo garniture urns raised on separate verde antico pedestals mounted with gilt foliate border above stepped base.
H: 14 3/4, W: 8 3/4, D: 5 1/2 in. (clock)Provenance: Property from the collection of Henry C. Gibson and his descendants, sold to benefit the Henry Foundation for Botanical Research, Pennsylvania.