A DIRECTOIRE TWO-TONE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

SIGNED P.F. LAMBERT/ PARIS, CIRCA 1795

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A DIRECTOIRE TWO-TONE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
Signed P.F. Lambert/ Paris, circa 1795
The circular white enamelled dial with Roman hour and Arabic quarter hour chapters, the twin barrel movement with silk-suspended pendulum and hour and half-hour strike on a bell via countwheel, within a two-tone gilt ormolu break-arch case surmounted by an elaborate two-tiered scalloped and fluted fountain issuing water-sprays flanked by similar tazze on plinths supported by bull-rush and cat-tail-cast columns to the angles, applied with tasseled spear heads flanked by rosettes above berried foliage around a centered grotesque fountain-mask, supported by dolphins issuing water-sprays, on a stepped base with rusticated panels on bun feet
12in. (50cm.) high, 10in. (26.5cm.) wide, 6in. (15cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Philippe Lambert recorded as active in the city of Svres from 1791.

A less elaborate mantel clock with similar water-sprouts by Claude Galle is ilustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Prschel, et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 371, fig. 5.13.17.

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