19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU, BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
19th Century
The circular white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, in a finely chased bezel surmounted by a reclining figure of the young Hercules with lion pelt, supported by a trumpeting elephant on a griotte marble base and later brown, grey and white marble base, the backplate inscribed 'BOULON', made up in the 19th Century using an 18th Century model of an elephant, lacking glass bezel
16 in. (41 cm.) high

Provenance

The Hon. Mrs. Coke (d.1937).
Thence by descent.

Lot Essay

This model of elephant with raised trunk features on a mid-18th Century clock from the collection of Baroness Eugène de Rothschild, sold in these Rooms, 6 December 1979, lot 53, and on another illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 124, no. 2.8.5. In place of the infant Hercules the former was surmounted by a figure of Cupid and the latter by a monkey.

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