A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1785

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
Circa 1785
The circular white enamelled dial with Arabic chapters decorated with gilt garlands and blue flowers signed Paris, the pierced and chased lyre-form hands with arrowhead tips, the movement with silk-suspended pendulum and single strike bell, set into a drum and surmounted by a figure of Cupid holding Hymen's torch and seated in a cloudburst, issuing floral swags supported by seated spaniels, the rectangular base with rounded ends centered by a simulated tasseled drapery swag with central laurel spray and floral wreath, on foliate toupie feet headed with flower-filled baskets
17in. (43cm.) high, 17in. (43cm.) wide

拍品專文

A clock of this model, with movement by Gaston Jolly, was sold anonymously in Ader, Picard, Tajan, Paris, 18 June 1980, lot 110, whilst a further example was sold anonymously in Paris, Palais Gallira, 26 May 1972, lot 66. A further example, signed Cronier Paris but with a white marble base, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopdie de la Pendule Franaise du Moyen Age au XXe sicle, Paris, 1997, p. 278., fig. B. A pair of chenets decorated with related spaniels at Waddesdon is illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, 1974, Vol. II, p. 736, No. 189, whilst another pair is at Pavlovsk, illustrated in Pavlovsk, the Collections, Paris, 1993, p. 195, fig. 45.