Delettrez a Paris c.1860 Stock No. 3131

Delettrez a Paris c.1860
A decorative French ‘tole’ mantel clock, the sheet metal case with painted floral decoration to the simulated rosewood ground.  The eight day movement is fronted by delicate ‘pierced moon’ hands, strikes the hours and half hours on a bell, and both the movement and the dial are signed ‘Delettrez, a Paris’.

Price: £870
Stock No. 3131

Jean Baptiste Delettrez is recorded working in Paris  c.1845 – c. 1885