138.           $1000

Ansonia Clock Co. “La Provence”, ca. 1908.  Ansonia’s largest porcelain clock, at 24 inches tall with gilding on all the edges and a signed image of a couple courting on a forested background – I cannot read the artist’s signature, below the figures on the right.  The gilding may have been refreshed, but I can’t be sure because I have never seen this model before.  Indeed, few people have, as this is a rare model with only two sales records in the Antique Clocks Identification and Price Guide over the last 24 years, and none on LiveAuctioneers.  The dial glass is beveled, the perfect porcelain dial decorated and signed, with the Ansonia logo in the middle section.  The visible escapement has ruby pallets, the hands are correct.  The 8-day time-and-strike Ansonia movement is running and striking as expected on a cathedral gong.  The most recent sale of this rare model was in 2017 at R.O. Schmitt for $2100.  $1000–$1500.