Antique French Tortoiseshell & Brass Inlaid Boulle Ormolu 8 Day Clock Paris 1880 Decorative Arts his final series “Black Rain”

his final series “Black Rain” channeled pain and hardship

one with a blue ground the other with a burgundy ground

The square pedestal below is decorated with panels also in relief and columns to each corner that are gilded

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His 1788 work Dance of Time is in the Frick Collection in New York

Antique French Tortoiseshell & Brass Inlaid Boulle Ormolu 8 Day Clock Paris 1880 Decorative Arts his final series “Black Rain”SOLD A fine antique French Boulle 8 day mantle clock, Paris, circa 1880. The clock having a cast gilt bronze ormolu finial to the top, modeled as a tazza full of fruit, the case is made of tortoiseshell and is inlaid with cut brass panels, the arched top is mounted with a gilt bronze head of a cherub. The white enameled dial having twin chapter rings with both Roman & Arabic numerals and two winding arbors one for the time and one for the strike, the