A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
The enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters signed 'Martinez LONDON', with flaming finial and born on a lion, with swagged laurel plinth, on a rectangular base with turned bun feet, the movement English and later, with pendulum
15 in. (40 cm.) high

Sale room notice

The movement is 19th Century and French, the dial is new, and not as mentioned in the catalogue description.

Lot Essay

The design of this mantel clock can be attributed to the workshop of Franois Vion and Pierre-Antoine Foullet, and having been executed around 1770. The design of a closely related endule au Lion is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Prschel,et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 193, ill. 3.11.6.

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