拍品 11
11
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
LATE 18TH CENTURY

The circular enamelled dial with roman and arabic chapters signed Le Roi à Paris, the twin barrel movement with countwheel strike on bell and anchor escapement with sunburst-cast pendulum, flanked by sphinxes on underscrolled uprights with Egyptian caryatid supports on a shaped rectangular plinth with anthemia-cast frieze on bun feet, losses, dial re-enamelled
28½in. (72cm.) high, 21¾in. (55cm.) wide, 5in. (12.5cm.) deep

拍品專文

A clock of related design is illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, vol. 2, p. 271, fig. 1. A similar clock is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Art and is illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorées Français du XVIIIe Siècle, 1987, p. 207, no. 239, and another is in the Green Salon at Stupinigi and is illustrated in L. Mallè, Stupinigi, 1968, p. 406