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Ormolu Mounted Malachite Veneered Mantel Clock

Catalog#:	3rd Anniversary
Artist:	Phillips Brothers
Category:	Clocks
SubType:	Clocks
Origin:	England-UK
Era:	19th Century
Height:	45 cm inches



A rare English mid 19th century ormolu mounted malachite veneered mantel clock of great quality, signed Phillips Brothers, 31 Cockspur Street, London and numbered 1230. The clock, having a case with superbly matched veneers and original ormolu mounts, including Eagle attacking viper, also has finely made 8 day chain fusee movement with screwed pillars, small 3 inch dial and half second pendulum and has almost certainly been designed & manufactured entirely by Phillips Brothers, who exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Height 45 cms. Circa 1850

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