A FRENCH BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, modelled as the Three Graces, shown clasically draped and standing with their backs to each other, surmounted by a spere with festive ribbon guilloche band and fleur de lis finial on fluted column and corinthian capital, the twin-train movement with serpent hands, on trefoil base, signed F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR, and stammpded REDUCTION MECHANIQUE, the underside marked 34/126 (chips to orb), late 19th century | Christie's

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A FRENCH BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, modelled as the Three Graces, shown clasically draped and standing with their backs to each other, surmounted by a spere with festive ribbon guilloche band and fleur de lis finial on fluted column and corinthian capital, the twin-train movement with serpent hands, on trefoil base, signed F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR, and stammpded REDUCTION MECHANIQUE, the underside marked 34/126 (chips to orb), late 19th century

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A FRENCH BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, modelled as the Three Graces, shown clasically draped and standing with their backs to each other, surmounted by a spere with festive ribbon guilloche band and fleur de lis finial on fluted column and corinthian capital, the twin-train movement with serpent hands, on trefoil base, signed F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR, and stammpded REDUCTION MECHANIQUE, the underside marked 34/126 (chips to orb), late 19th century
35½in. (90cm.) high

拍品專文

Illustrated in the 1886 catalogue of the Parisian bronze-founder F. Barbedienne, rue de Lancry, the caryatid nymphs are two-fifth reductions of Germain Pilon's celebrated 'Graces' executed for the monument of Henri II (d. 1566), which has been displayed at the Louvre since 1816.