Lot 264
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A French ormolu striking figural mantel clock
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A French ormolu striking figural mantel clock

BY VERON, PARIS, AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-JOSEPH DE SAINT-GERMAIN, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A French ormolu striking figural mantel clock
By Veron, Paris, after the model by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain, Third quarter 19th Century
The case mounted with musical trophies and with figures of amorini playing instruments, above rococo plinth with pierced fretwork panels to all sides, the white enamel Roman and Arabic dial signed Véron/A PARIS, pierced gilt-metal hands, the eight day twin spring barrels movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell, pendulum, key, lacking glass bezel to the reverse
26¼ in. (65.5 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

The beautiful flower-festooned golden clock, designed in the 1740s French 'picturesque' fashion, evokes the triumph of the Arts of Peace represented by genii led by the Sun and poetry deity Apollo. The Arts and Sciences, personified by music-making youths and their telescope-bearing companion (now lacking the telescope) accompany a poetic pastoral trophy of musical instruments; while the clock's pillar and 'sarcophagus' plinth display flowered trellis cartouches. The model was first executed by the Parisian bronzier Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (d.1791) following his establishment in 1741 in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. (H. Ottomeyer/P. Proschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986 , fig.2.8.10).

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