A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE AND PORTOR MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY FRANCOIS REMOND

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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE AND PORTOR MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
Early 19th Century, after a design by Francois Remond
The circular glazed and enamelled dial, with Arabic chapters inscribed Kinable, within a drum case with trailing flowers and surmounted by a laurel-swag and oval urn with floral finial, on a spreading rectangular plinth with central plaque of two playing putti, flanked to either side by a Greek figure reading, on a breakfront stiff-leaf rim and inverted breakfront rounded rectangular panelled base centred by a maiden's mask and scrolling foliage, the sides with a flowerhead medallion, on a beaded rim and conforming lower plinth with gadrooned bun-feet, with winder and pendulum, the urn and trailing foliage probably later
28 in. (71 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

D.D. Kinable was active at the Palais Royale, Galerie de Pierre from 1794-1830.

This clock is directly inspired by the celebrated design of the ciseleur-doreur François Rémond of circa 1785. (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, p. 295 fig. 4.17.5) Instead with a husk-trailed urn and roses replacing the eagle, the two seated figures represent L'Etude and La Philosophie and were originally created for the Sèvres Factory by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1780. It was the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre who commissioned Rémond to design the clock to incorporate Boizot's figures (C. Baulez, 'La Pendule à la Geoffrin', L'Estampille, April 1989, p. 39-41).

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