Lot 425
425
A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE, SILVERED AND JEWELED MANTEL CLOCK
This lot is offered without reserve. PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE, SILVERED AND JEWELED MANTEL CLOCK

THE DIAL AND THE MOVEMENT LOUIS XVI, THE CASE LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE, SILVERED AND JEWELED MANTEL CLOCK
THE DIAL AND THE MOVEMENT LOUIS XVI, THE CASE LATE 19TH CENTURY
The white-enameled dial signed 'BRILLE/A PARIS', with pierced hands set with simulated diamonds, the movement with silk-suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike on bell
12 in. (31 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

The design for this clock is based on one from 1770 by Francois Vion and Pierre-Antoine Foullet (H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p.193, fig 3.11.6). Comparable pendules au lion are illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopedie de La Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, p. 278, figs. C-E.

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