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Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)
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Case: hard-paste and soft-paste porcelain with gilded-bronze mounts; Dial: white enamel with blue numerals for hours and blue numerals for minutes; Movement: brass and steel
Rights: Public Domain
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer 1973
Title: Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)
Description:
Case: hard-paste and soft-paste porcelain with gilded-bronze mounts; Dial: white enamel with blue numerals for hours and blue numerals for minutes; Movement: brass and steel.
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