VERNEY TABLE CLOCK "HIPPOPOTAME" GOLD AND AGATE
Verney, Paris. Made circa 1990.
Fine, 18K gold, agate and mother of pearl quartz table clock. Accompanied by a fitted box.
Octagonal polished agate body, circular bezel with yellow gold mount, raised on the back of a
carved agate hippopotamus with cabochon eyes set in gold collets, rectangular base with gold border,
carved base with block feet.
Mother of pearl marquetry in a 12-pointed star pattern. Yellow gold baton hands with a cabochon
ruby-set center.
With quartz standardization.
Case signed on a gold plaque on the back of the base.
DIM. 20.5 x 13 x 7 cm.