A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

SIGNED DETOUR PARIS, CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
Signed Detour Paris, circa 1780
Of lyre form with white-enamelled circular dial with Arabic chapters and days of the month, the pierced frame surmounted by an Apollo mask draped with grape vines, on an oval grey marble base applied with beading and chains, on circular feet, lacking pendulum
27in. (68.5cm.) high, 11in. (28cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Probably Jacques-Auguste D'etour, recorded in Paris 1776

A 1775-1785 design for a related lyre clock is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see. M. Myers, French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1991, p. 204, fig. 121).

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