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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

GILLES BAUVE, PARIS, CIRCA 1775

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
GILLES BAUVE, PARIS, CIRCA 1775
The drum case headed by a winged cupid with garland flanked by draped curtains, one end held up by a standing cherub above a couch with sleeping partially draped figure of Venus, white enamel dial with pierced and paste-gem decorated hands signed 'Bauve A PARIS', twin barrels with recoil anchor escapement, silk suspension and countwheel strike to bell, back plate signed 'Bauve A Paris'; with pendulum and winding key
16½ in. (42 cm.) high; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide; 7 in. (17.8 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

Gilles Bauve, maître 1770, worked on Rue Sainte-Antoine (Tardy, Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français, Paris, p. 35). For a clock of the same model, see H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol. I, Munich, 1986, pp. 196-197, fig. 3.13.5.

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