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Lot Essay
Pierre Merra, maître in 1772, is recorded in the rue aux Ours between 1776 and 1779 and in the rue Saint-Denis until he closed the workshop in 1791.
The design for this mantel clock is in the Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris and can be attributed to the largely unknown Le Duc. The clock is described as Pièce de bureau à la Romaine and cost 184 livres when it was designed circa 1770 (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 192, fig. 3.11.1). A clock of identical model was sold anonymously at Picard, Paris, 14 June 1995, lot 90.
The design for this mantel clock is in the Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris and can be attributed to the largely unknown Le Duc. The clock is described as Pièce de bureau à la Romaine and cost 184 livres when it was designed circa 1770 (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 192, fig. 3.11.1). A clock of identical model was sold anonymously at Picard, Paris, 14 June 1995, lot 90.