Lot Essay
Other clocks of this model are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Franaise, Paris, n.d., vol.II, cat. 36) and the chteau de Fontainebleau. Another was sold from the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild. Christie's London, 24 November 1972 lot 9 (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Prschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 250, fig. 4.6.18)