Lot Essay
Lopin is recorded at The Palais Royal in 1812.
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CIRCA 1810, SIGNED LOPIN, PARIS
Details
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
Circa 1810, signed Lopin, Paris
The white enamel Roman chapter disc within a rope-twist ormolu border and with blued steel moon hands, signed Lopin, Palais Royal No. 143, the case cast as an allegory of Love with a shield frame mounted with arrows and a burnished ormolu A beneath a floral surmount, the center with a trophy emblemaic of love, with crossed quivers intersected by a bow and conjoined by a love heart and a wreath of flowers, the octagonal base applied with a central relief panel of a cupid and Chronos and a winged cherub crossing the Styx, the whole on four paw feet
13¼in. (33.5cm.) high
Circa 1810, signed Lopin, Paris
The white enamel Roman chapter disc within a rope-twist ormolu border and with blued steel moon hands, signed Lopin, Palais Royal No. 143, the case cast as an allegory of Love with a shield frame mounted with arrows and a burnished ormolu A beneath a floral surmount, the center with a trophy emblemaic of love, with crossed quivers intersected by a bow and conjoined by a love heart and a wreath of flowers, the octagonal base applied with a central relief panel of a cupid and Chronos and a winged cherub crossing the Styx, the whole on four paw feet
13¼in. (33.5cm.) high
Provenance
The Vitale Collection of Highly Important European Clocks, Part I, sold Christie's New York, 30 October 1996, lot 79, ($5,175).