BY FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE, PARIS, CIRCA 1875

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A French Neoclassic style ormolu and black marble garniture
By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris, Circa 1875
Comprising a mantel clock and pair of five-light candelabra, the clock as a lidded fluted urn with fruiting finial, monogrammed collar and pierced Vitruvian scroll frieze flanked by Greek key handles, with laurel-festooned lower bowl, on spreading foot and stepped rectangular plinth, supported on four garlanded columns, centred by the circular dial with enamelled Roman numeral cartouches and twin-train movement, inscribed F. BARBEDIENNE/PARIS, within a drapery-cast panel decorated with bees and Vitruvian scrolling, the reverse with a similar panel, the sides with similar foliate-chased panels, on a stepped rectangular base and toupie feet, the candelabra each as a baluster vase after a model by Claude Michel Clodion, cast in low relief with figures around a sacrificial altar, issuing an acanthus-sheathed stem supporting scrolled candelarms, on similar bases, the urn and candelabra socles inscribed F. BARBEDIENNE
The clock: 30in. (76.2cm.) high; The candelabra: 29¾in. (75.6cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

A similar garniture by Barbedienne, with identical clock (lacking its base), but with figural candelabra, was sold Sotheby's New York, 23 September 1995, lot 66 ($13,800). See lot 367 for a note on Ferdinand Barbedienne.

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