Lot Essay
This model is representing the vini-culture, a clock of similar design is illustrated in, Pierre Kjellberg, La Pendule Française..., Paris 1997, p. 240-241.
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LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE-GRIOTTE MARBLE FIGURAL STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Modelled as two little fauns carrying a stretcher decorated with grapes and a bearskin centred by the clockcase in the form of a wine barrel, white enamel dial with pierced ormolu hands, eight-day twin barrel movement, silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell; pierced eagle pendulum, winding key
47 cm. high
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Modelled as two little fauns carrying a stretcher decorated with grapes and a bearskin centred by the clockcase in the form of a wine barrel, white enamel dial with pierced ormolu hands, eight-day twin barrel movement, silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell; pierced eagle pendulum, winding key
47 cm. high
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