A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND BRONZE PENUDLE A LA GEOFFRIN, with a recumbent female figure seated on a stool illustrating L'Emploi du Temps, after the model by Laurent Guyard, shown reading a book and wearing classical dress leaning on the arched case with ribbon tied acorn spray cresting and scrolling foliate feet, white enamel dial with Arabic minutes and Roman hours signed Lepaute Hger Du Roy a Paris to the circular four pillar movement with outside countwheel strike and silk suspended pendulum, on rectangular plinth applied with Vitruvian scrolls
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND BRONZE PENUDLE A LA GEOFFRIN, with a recumbent female figure seated on a stool illustrating L'Emploi du Temps, after the model by Laurent Guyard, shown reading a book and wearing classical dress leaning on the arched case with ribbon tied acorn spray cresting and scrolling foliate feet, white enamel dial with Arabic minutes and Roman hours signed Lepaute Hger Du Roy a Paris to the circular four pillar movement with outside countwheel strike and silk suspended pendulum, on rectangular plinth applied with Vitruvian scrolls
38.5 cm high x 65 cm wide x 23 cm deep
Literature
C. Baulez, L'Objet d'Art/L'Estampille, April 1989 pp. 34-41 La Pendule à la Geoffrin Un Modèle a Succès
G. de Bellaique, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manner: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, London, 1974, 1 no. 17, pp. 104-7
A.L. Baldry, The Wallace Collection at Hertford House, London 1904, Gallery XXII
F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection catalogues: Furniture, London 1956, F 267, plate 55
H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen I, München, 1986, 3.3.1
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