An Attractive 19thC Painted Grandfather Clock Dial sub-Curios Overall Height (with fisherman): 14

Overall Height (with fisherman): 14

and in 1867 was introduced into the British pharmacopoeia

including Frans Hals

The front of the piece is beautifully inlaid with satinwood strung amboyna panels

the central designs often being delineated by white borders

An Attractive 19thC Painted Grandfather Clock Dial sub-Curios Overall Height (with fisherman): 14Origin: Possibly Italian Period: Early Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1820 40 Height: 17 inches Width: 12 inches The eight day face with arch top and rolling wheel hand painted with roman numerals, the corners with floral posies surrounded by a turquoise ribbon motif border, the top arch depicting a hand painted rural farm house scene with a peasant at the door of a stone house with trees and fallen log to the foreground against a