A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

BY JEAN-FRANOIS DEBELLE

细节

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
By Jean-Franois Debelle
The ormolu beaded bezel to the white enamel dial with Arabic chapters, pierced ormolu hands, blued steel spade hand indicating to the outer concentric calendar ring, the centre signed 'De Belle A Paris', pendulum regulation square above chapter 12, the twin barrel movement with countwheel strike on a bell, the dial surmounted and surrounded to the right by a nymph bearing garlands of flowers, to the left a pair of billing doves beside a stream, on an integral rounded rectangular beaded base with panelled frieze of intertwined scrolling foliage, the sides mounted with paterae, the winding holes chipped, lacking feet, lacking pendulum
15 in. (38 cm.) high; 14 in. (36.5 cm.) wide; 5 in. (14 cm.) deep

来源

Rothschild inv. no. AR790.

展览

The city of Vienna Uhren Museum from 1947 until July 1999.

拍品专文

Jean-Franois Debelle, matre horloger in 1781, recorded at rue Saint-Honor 1787-1800.

A related design by Franois Vion for clocks with nymphs attending Love's altar is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Prschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 247.