A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
LATE 18TH CENTURY

In the form of an obelisk surmounted by the Bourbon cockerel, centering an enamelled face, the front applied with the figure of a vestal virgin making offerings, and bucrania and stars, the whole supported by four winged lionesses on a plinth applied with a frieze of Hercules and the Nemean lion above an ormolu plinth (movement and dial of a later date, alterations to dial face)--25½in. (63.75cm.) high, 10in. (25cm.) wide, 6½in. (15cm.) deep

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Other obelisk-form clocks are illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, vol. II, 1949, pp. 264-265. Similar clocks were sold from the collection of Akram Ojjeh, Sotheby's Monaco, 25-26 June 1979, lot 17 and Sotheby's London, 9 December 1994, lot 334.