A LOUIS XVI WHITE MARBLE, ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS RÉMOND, CIRCA 1785

Details

A LOUIS XVI WHITE MARBLE, ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
Attributed to François Rémond, Circa 1785
The circular white enamel dial with time and strike two train movement with outside count wheel and silk pendulum suspension within a drum-shaped case, the case in two-tone gilding, surmounted by eagle with wings spread and flanked at either side by figures of readers, resting on an elongated rectangular plinth with central panel of winged putti playing with a doe applied with cherub and satyr's mask mounts and resting on gadrooned feet, finished and chased to the reverse, the movement and dial associated, the movement signed R.Martin/1973 and with an indistinct signature
21in (53.5cm.) high, 28in. (71cm.) wide

Provenance

Purchased from Maurice Segoura, Paris.

Lot Essay

This model of clock follows almost identically a drawing attributed by C. Baulez to the bronzier François Rémond (maître in 1774), illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et.al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, p.295, pl. 4.17.5. A number of examples of this clock exist and there are variations to the models including the reading figures being in biscuit porcelain or ormolu, in addition to the patinated bronze found on this example. A clock of this exact model but with the reading figures cast in ormolu is illustrated in op.cit., p. 295, pl. 4.17.6. Other examples of this model are in the collection of H.M. the Queen, the Château of Versailles and Castle Stockholm (See op.cit, p. 295).

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