A FINE AND RARE SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT BRONZE CLOCK DEPICTING A FORTUNE TELLER, CIRCA 1830, BY PONS OF PARIS, the seated fortune teller with fur trimmed, long flowing robe and long beard, reading the palm of an elegantly dressed maiden, the girl with ribbon-tied ringlets in her fashionably coiffured hair and voluminous sleeves, the girl and palm reader both leaning on a table with ornate chased and relief cast decoration of arabesques, the whole raised atop of the plinth base with shell crest and acanthus mounts, the white enamelled dial with Roman numerals, the twin train movement with silk suspension and outside countwheel, the movement signed 'Pons Medaille d'or 1827' and 'BAULLIER & FILS PARIS'. no. 106,

50cm high

The clock is winding, ticking and striking when the hands are turned but not fully tested or guaranteed.

Pons used the 1827 Paris Medaille d’Or stamped between 1827 and 1834, in 1834 they won the gold medal again.