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A Louis-Philippe ormolu mantel clock
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A Louis-Philippe ormolu mantel clock

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A Louis-Philippe ormolu mantel clock
Second quarter 19th Century
Naturalistically modelled as an interior scene depicting the Comte Buffon seated and writing beside a console table and mirror mounted with airborne putti, a clock to the centre flanked by a pair of vases, to the other side an owl and ostrich with various lizards and shells, on a rectangular base cast with snakes and fronted by a shell mount, on scrolling acanthus-cast feet
24 in. (61 cm.) high; 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) wide; 8¾ in. (22 cm.) deep
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The Comte de Buffon (d. 1788) began his celebrated Histoire Naturelle in 1749, leaving it unfinished at the time of his death. His ideas on the mutability of species, which were examined by Darwin and influenced later students of evolutionary theory, are perhaps his most important contribution to speculative science.