A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CLOCK by Robert Osmond, with circular glazed enamelled dial with Roman numerals signed LOUIS MONTJOYE, the movement engraved Ls. Montjoye Paris, framed by ribbon-tied laurel and in a fluted columnar case headed by a neo-classical vase with ring-handles and later pine cone finial, on square base engraved OSMOND

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CLOCK by Robert Osmond, with circular glazed enamelled dial with Roman numerals signed LOUIS MONTJOYE, the movement engraved L^s. Montjoye Paris, framed by ribbon-tied laurel and in a fluted columnar case headed by a neo-classical vase with ring-handles and later pine cone finial, on square base engraved OSMOND
15in. (38cm.) high

Lot Essay

Robert Osmond, maître in 1746
Louis Montjoye, maître in 1748

This model, save the swagged urn which has replaced a pair of billing doves, is recorded as No. 53 is Osmond's Livre des dessiers, supplied at a cost of 198 livres. Closely related clockcases by Osmond are illustrated in Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, p. 194, fig. 3.12.3., p. 195, fig. 3.12.6 and p. 177, fig. 3.6.7

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