拍品专文
The bas relief celebrates the Season of Spring and the Element of Air, with the festive deity Flora courted by the wind deity Zephyr while flowering a wind-puffed sphere
BY DELORME
细节
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK
By Delorme
Profusely inlaid overall with scrolling foliage the circular dial with enamelled Roman and Arabic chapters inscribed 'DE.LORME A PARIS' and foliate hands, with later movement, behind a glazed door mounted to the lower edge with the reclining figure of Flora borne on a lion and beside a globe, the arched case with glazed panels to each side and surmounted by a shaped block with entwined serpents at the angles and further mounted with a figure of Flora atop a flower and acanthus-wreathed rocaille dome, the lower edge mounted with scrolling acanthus and rocaille, on conforming wedge feet, the back door stamped 'MARCHAND' and 'JME', the back plate of the movement inscribed 'Delorme AParis', the mounts regilt and possibly partially replaced
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 17 in. (44 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20 cm.) deep
By Delorme
Profusely inlaid overall with scrolling foliage the circular dial with enamelled Roman and Arabic chapters inscribed 'DE.LORME A PARIS' and foliate hands, with later movement, behind a glazed door mounted to the lower edge with the reclining figure of Flora borne on a lion and beside a globe, the arched case with glazed panels to each side and surmounted by a shaped block with entwined serpents at the angles and further mounted with a figure of Flora atop a flower and acanthus-wreathed rocaille dome, the lower edge mounted with scrolling acanthus and rocaille, on conforming wedge feet, the back door stamped 'MARCHAND' and 'JME', the back plate of the movement inscribed 'Delorme AParis', the mounts regilt and possibly partially replaced
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 17 in. (44 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20 cm.) deep