Antique French Comtoise Clock Brass Crest]

Original 19th-century French Comtoise clock face with a pierced repousse gilt-brass crest in the classic design: a radiant sunburst mask above a basket of flowers flanked by sweeping acanthus. Offered as decorative architectural salvage, the crest and front assembly with its iron reverse.

Comtoise crests are thin, hand-worked sheet brass, and the way they hold and throw light is the whole reason designers keep reaching for them. This example is priced for the buyer who wants the gilt drama without the premium a signed dial carries.