A PARIS (GUERHARD & DIHL) YELLOW-GROUND PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1805, STENCILLED BLACK MARKS

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A PARIS (GUERHARD & DIHL) YELLOW-GROUND PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK
Circa 1805, stencilled black marks
The circular enamel clock face inscribed, 'Schmit a Paris' within a square case decorated en grisaille with foliate spandrels, the sides with arabesques, surrmounted by a blue and white 'jasper' urn, flanked by two seated biscuit putti with books, on a rounded rectangular plinth inlaid with blue and white plaques, raised on six toupie feet
18in. (47.6cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Jean Nicolas Schmit is recorded as the chief supplier of works to the firm of Guerhard & Dihl. He had premises on Rue Martin from 1800-1810. See anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 21 October 1997, lot 276 for a similar mantel clock circa 1795.

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