Lot 144
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AN ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
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AN ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

19TH CENTURY

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AN ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
19th Century
The circular white enamel dial with roman and arabic chapters and glazed bezel, with later Swiss watch movement, in a drum case with eagle cresting and flanked by laurels, supported by four addorsed dolphins on a shell held by a pair of sea-horses, on an oval plinth base with swagged foliage and scrolled volutes
11 in. (28 cm.) high
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

This highly decorative French-style bronze mantel-clock, with Grecian laurel-festooned marble plinth, celebrates Lyric poetry. Conceived in the Louis Seize manner and evoking the Water Element, its laurel-wreathed movement is borne on a fountain-like pillar comprised of Venus's embowed dolphins riding in a shell drawn by Neptune's sea-horses. Such clocks would have been introduced by George, Prince of Wales at the elegant water-side Marine villa created at Brighton by the architect Henry Holland (d. 1806). It reflects in particular the fashion promoted in the 1780s by the Paris/London dealer and marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre (d. 1796).

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