A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, signed BRAILLARD/A VERSAILLES, the movement signed to the reverse Julien Braillard/A Versailles No 208, the laurel-swagged drum surmounted by a neo-classical urn and supported by a roaring lion, on a hatched eared rectangular plinth with Greek-key fret frieze garlanded with laurel, on triglyph and guttae feet

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, the circular glazed enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, signed BRAILLARD/A VERSAILLES, the movement signed to the reverse Julien Braillard/A Versailles No 208, the laurel-swagged drum surmounted by a neo-classical urn and supported by a roaring lion, on a hatched eared rectangular plinth with Greek-key fret frieze garlanded with laurel, on triglyph and guttae feet
13in. (33cm.) high; 8in. (20.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

The design for this clock is closely related to no. 58 in Francois Vion's Livre de desseins of circa 1770, a model which was sold by Jean-Francois Violet, the maître fondeur, for 171 livres. Related clocks were sold by Mrs. Gaby Saloman, Sotheby's London, 1 July 1966, lot 50 and by S. Eckman Esq., Sotheby's London, 6 October 1967, lot 43, while a more elaborate model was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 10 December 1992, lot 77

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