A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND MARBLE TABLE CENTERS

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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND MARBLE TABLE CENTERS
Each with a white cluster column surmounted by an astral and global orrery and axe and wrapped with bands suspending spheres, above a lappeted square plinth and black fossil marble column with central military trophy, surrounded by a chain and bolard, on a serpentine plinth base with pierced baluster gallery and geometrically pierced panel flanked by later rosettes, on engine-turned tapering feet, with later electric wired extensions for lamps and two later white silk and gilt brocade shades, one lacking a chain and sphere and the global orrery broken, the pierced ormolu on the base and the gallery loose
24 in. (61 cm.) high (with shades 31 in. (79 cm.) high) (2)

Lot Essay

Two designs for mantel clocks with related ormolu-mounted and marble bases, by Courvoisier Houriet Du Crot, which are now in the Muse des arts dcoratifs in Paris, are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Prschel,et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 253, fig. 4.6.29,30.

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