448.   $100

Unsigned portico garniture, ca. 1870.  An attractive garniture set in a finish I can’t identify, almost nickel but with a verdigris patina.  The portico clock is 14.5 inches tall, the three-light candelabras are 11.5 inches tall. There is a musical theme here, with a lyre and horns on the small front piece of each item.  The pendulum bob is also in a lyre shape.  The metal dial has cartouche numbers and a porcelain center, signed “Aux Louis d’Or, Palais Royal”, presumably the retailer’s location in Paris.  There is a beveled flat glass in the bezel, surmounted by a ribbon and urn on top.  Both candelabras have been repaired where the right candleholder broke off, and the side finials on the top of the clock’s urn are broken off. The pendule de Paris movement is unsigned, with an external count wheel.  It is running but the strike is not functioning. $100-$250.