Lot Essay
William Radford 1764-1826.
The ormolu-enriched statuary marble clock, in the manner of a pedestal-supported watch, is designed in the Louis XVI fashion promoted during the 1780's by marchands merciers such as Dominique Daguerre (d. 1796) of London and Paris. While resembling a pedestal-supported watch, its form also evolved from the vase-capped pedestal clocks, such as featured in Robert Osmond's, Livre des desseins, c.1770 (see P.Pröschel, H.Ottomeyer, et.al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. p.194). Its pearl-and-palm wreathed 'medallion' case, on a stepped and reeded gadrooned plinth, has an elliptic 'altar' pedestal, formed as a truncated Grecian Doric column. The latter, wreathed by a ribbon-guilloche and Etruscan-pearl bands, is festooned with a sacred veil tied to an Apollo-sunflowered pattera.
The ormolu-enriched statuary marble clock, in the manner of a pedestal-supported watch, is designed in the Louis XVI fashion promoted during the 1780's by marchands merciers such as Dominique Daguerre (d. 1796) of London and Paris. While resembling a pedestal-supported watch, its form also evolved from the vase-capped pedestal clocks, such as featured in Robert Osmond's, Livre des desseins, c.1770 (see P.Pröschel, H.Ottomeyer, et.al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. p.194). Its pearl-and-palm wreathed 'medallion' case, on a stepped and reeded gadrooned plinth, has an elliptic 'altar' pedestal, formed as a truncated Grecian Doric column. The latter, wreathed by a ribbon-guilloche and Etruscan-pearl bands, is festooned with a sacred veil tied to an Apollo-sunflowered pattera.