A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MAHOGANY BRACKET CLOCK AND PEDESTAL

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MAHOGANY BRACKET CLOCK AND PEDESTAL
In the Régence style, second half 19th Century

The clock of shaped outline surmounted with a cloud-borne cupid, the circular brass dial with twelve enamel numeral plaquettes, signed in an oval below JULIEN LE ROY, the twin-train movement with anchor escapement and countwheel strike, with glazed pendulum aperture below, the canted angles with four hermed caryatid male figures emblematic of the Continents, the glazed sides above the serpentine shaped base with scrolled feet; the hermed-pedestal of serpentine tapering outline, with a moulded shelf above is hung with a heroic medallion depicting the planetary sphere returned to Atlas by the labouring Hercules, above tapering panels cast with foliage, the canted angles cast with foliate brackets, on hairy claw feet, and stepped plinth
27¾in. (70.5cm.) wide; 97in. (246.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

The pedestal-supported bracket clock is a replica of Andre Charles Boulle's 'Four Continents' clock of the 1720s. One version, with a movement by Julien Le Roy, was acquired in the 1860s by the 4th Marquess of Hertford (see P. Hughes, Clocks and Barometeres in the Wallace Collection, London, 1994, pp. 28 and 29).

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