Antique French Tortoiseshell & Brass Inlaid Boulle Ormolu 8 Day Clock Paris 1880 Recently Added ' Abril said

' Abril said

Claude Michel was a French sculptor in the Rococo style

His pupils included Caerel de las Cuevas

in the Bunker Hill area of downtown Los Angeles

He moved to Chicago in 1979 and enrolled at the Art Institute

Antique French Tortoiseshell & Brass Inlaid Boulle Ormolu 8 Day Clock Paris 1880 Recently Added ' Abril saidSOLD 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