Art Nouveau Ceramic Mantel Clock
Art Nouveau mantel clock in a ceramic case with a white ground decorated with flowers in shades of blue with beaded decoration to the outside of the case
standing on a ribbed outswept arch with rectangular centre.
Gilded bezel opening to an enamel dial with Arabic numerals and original gilded hands signed ‘Maple & Co Ltd, Paris’
Eight day French movement also signed ‘Maple & Co Ltd, Paris’. c.1900
‘Watchmakers and clockmakers of the world’ by Brian Loomes lists Maple & Co as working both in London and Paris from 1880 to 1905.