Raison & Thomas - A French 19th century circa 1880s red marb...

Hammer

£200

Raison & Thomas - A French 19th century circa 1880s red marble & slate mantle clock garniture. The 8 day movement clock having a white face with Roman numerals to the chapter ring. Slate & red marble bod with floral shaped carved patterns. The clock having an urn shaped finial atop with shaped handles to sides. Raised on paw feet. Stamped 'Medaille d 'argent ' and dated 1889 to the movement. The garnitures in the shape of four arm candlesticks with urn shaped pedestal. Raised on marble & slate base. Clock measuring approx. 46cm x 24cm x 15cm.

Provenance - part of a collection from Netheravon House, in Netheravon, Wiltshire. The house was built after 1734 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, on a commanding part of the chalk bluff that overlooks the Avon Valley, to the south of the 11th-century village church and close to where a Roman villa stood. The grounds were laid out by the landscape architect and astronomer Thomas Wright and published in Universal Architecture in 1755 and 1758.