Assembled Limoges Porcelain Three Piece Clock Garniture, France, 19th century, gilded and polychrome enamel decorated, consisting of a pair of cornucopia-shaped vases, ht. 15 3/4 in.; together with a similar clock topped by a figural group, overall ht. 16 3/4 in.
Condition report
Condition: vases: light even gilt wear throughout; gilding along each footrim retouched
clock stand: 2″ piece off at top center rim and simply reglued; several sizable chips to ends of scrolled foliage; by a front foot 2″ area where all of the foliage gone; two areas of enamel mising and filled in on dial
figure group: missing greater part of the ribbon reins between the man’s hand and the sheep; two shallow footrim flakes along front edge of roughly 1/4″ and one to a back corner of about 1/2″; 1/2″ chip to the back rim of the woman’s hat
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