A French gilt bronze and champlevé enamel clock garniture in Renaissance Revival taste

A French gilt bronze and champlevé enamel clock garniture in Renaissance Revival taste, circa 1870 , The eight-day bell striking movement with Brocot pendulum regulation and with Japy Frères roundel beneath further stamped G V to backplate, Rosette centred gilt Roman Numeral dial inscribed Roman Numeral dial inscribed SIMMONS, MANCHESTER & PARIS, the clock of arch form with serpentine and circular finial and an amorino perched to the centre of the broken arch top, the surface with scrolling polychrome enamel motifs in the manner of Maison Alphonse Giroux, the corners with four knopped and pointed columnar supports on rectangular plinths, with moulded base on bun feet, 43 cm high; with two matched gilt bronze and champlevé enamelled twin handled urns, 31 cm high
CATALOGUE NOTES:
The retailer, Simmons, traded from 7 St Anns Square, Manchester, from prior to 1851 until 1871 when they were succeeded by Arnold and Lewis. A fine wall regulator in a monumental carved oak case in the fully blown Reformed Gothic style signed for I. Simmons (and his successors Arnold and Lewis) was sold in these rooms in our sale of Fine Clocks, Barometers & Scientific Instruments on September 20th 2017 (lot 395)