A Louis XV bronze mantel clock

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A Louis XV bronze mantel clock
The drum-shaped case supported on the back of a trumpeting elephant and surmounted by the figure of a seated figure in oriental costume, the white enamel Roman and Arabic dial, signed Mauduit A PARIS, with foliate pierced of gilt pointers, the later twin train movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on a bell, on a later associated white marble plinth
14in. (35.5cm.) high

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Comparable examples are illustrated in Ottomeyer & Pröschel's Vergoldete Bronzen, Klinkhardt and Biermann, Mnchen, page 124, pl.2.8.5; and Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclop/aedie de La Pendule Francaise, du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, pages 125-6.

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