Object Description
This 19th Century Austrian table clock is crafted in silver and the complex champleve enamel technique. The base of the clock is a semi-spherical dome inlaid with enamel panels of classical figures and landscapes. The central support for the clock is a silver full-length figure of a woman standing on the base, who holds her skirt in one hand and a basket of flowers on her head in the other hand. Attached to the top of the flowers is the ovular clock dial, decorated to the reverse with a classical scene of a man and woman with a cupid and to the face with polychrome foliate motifs, all in champleve enamel. The clock dial has Roman numerals within roundels, and a hinged silver mounted frame to the front.