拍品 353
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

THE DIAL SIGNED LEPAUTE À PARIS, CIRCA 1810

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
The dial signed Lepaute à Paris, circa 1810
The white enamelled dial with Roman chapter ring within a leaftip bezel on the front of a rectangular altar decorated with ribbon-tied rose branches surmounted by Cupid within a blooming rose, flanked by a draped Vestal and a flowering urn on a cylindrical socle, above a rectangular plinth base decorated with three floral love trophies centering two torches, on a base with leaftip ogee molded upper edge and machined bun feet each stamped U, the two train movement stamped *55, the pendulum stamped 26792
16¾in. (42.5cm) high, 12½in. (32cm) wide, 4½in. (11.5cm) deep

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Pierre-Basile Lapaute (called Sully-Lepaute) (1750-1843) worked with his cousin Jean-Joseph from 1795 until 1811 when he began to collaborate with his son Pierre-Michel (1785-1849). The pair received the title Horloger de l'Empereur and were a principal supplier to the Garde-Meuble and then Horloger du Roi during the Restoration and July Monarchy. There clocks were shown at the Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie from 1819-23.

Related clocks showing the theme La Naissance de l'Amour with Cupid emerging from a rose are illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pen dule franâise du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 389, figs. E and F.