A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, the glazed circular enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic numerals and inscribed Crosnier/à PARIS, the twin barrel movement signed Crosnier à Paris with anchor escapement with silk-suspended pendulum, countwheel strike on bell and bevel gear drive to the calendar above, on a plinth with guilloche frieze surmounted by a two handled urn with revolving day of the month, the fluted base and spirally-fluted neck surmounted by a fruiting finial on a stiff-leaf lid, flanked by the figure of Astronomy and a putto holding a sun dial, on a stepped rectangular plinth with semi-circular panelled front centred by acanthus scrolls, on a white marble plinth

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, the glazed circular enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic numerals and inscribed Crosnier/à PARIS, the twin barrel movement signed Crosnier à Paris with anchor escapement with silk-suspended pendulum, countwheel strike on bell and bevel gear drive to the calendar above, on a plinth with guilloche frieze surmounted by a two handled urn with revolving day of the month, the fluted base and spirally-fluted neck surmounted by a fruiting finial on a stiff-leaf lid, flanked by the figure of Astronomy and a putto holding a sun dial, on a stepped rectangular plinth with semi-circular panelled front centred by acanthus scrolls, on a white marble plinth
16½in. (42cm.) high

Lot Essay

Antoine Crosnier, maître in 1763.

The maiden of this clock is closely related to a drawing of 1766 by Jean-Louis Prieur (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p.167, fig. 3.4.4) for a mantel clock which Prieur designed in collaboration with Victor Louis for the Royal Palace in Warsaw, executed circa 1777.
A related clock was sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 4 May 1985, lot 241

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