A late Louis XVI ormolu-mounted biscuit porcelain mantel clock

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A late Louis XVI ormolu-mounted biscuit porcelain mantel clock
The case naturalistically modelled as a rocky arch flanked by the figures of a faun and bacchante, the faun wearing a lion pelt, the bacchante supporting a herm figure of Pan, the base modelled with doves below the circular white enamel Arabic dial with pierced gilt hands, the twin-train movement with count wheel strike on a bell, the later movement with pendulum and key
15½in. (42cm.) wide, 14in. (35.5cm.) high

來源

Countess Maria von Bismarck, Villa Il Fortino, Capri, listed in the Countess's Bedroom, sold Sotheby's Florence, 6-7 April 1987, lot 359.

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拍品專文

The clock celebrates the poets' Arcadian paradise, and displays 'Venus' doves in a rusticated triumphal arch attended by a festive faun, with bacchic cymbals at his feet, and his bacchante companion, who prepares to erect a herm statue to the fertility deity Pan. The 'biscuit' porcelain may have been executed by Charles Gabriel Sauvage (called Lemire) (d. 1827), who in 1781 became principal modeller at the Niderviller works, that had been established in 1749 by Adam-Phillipe, comte de Custine (d.1793).