AN ORMOLU WALL CLOCK, the backplate surmounted by a laurel wreath, with triumphal pedestal supported by two fluted Corinthian capitals, hung with drapery, the circular clock case supported by a figure of Chronos seated upon a vase, the moulded base with four attendant cherubs emblematic of the Seasons, each with garlanded hair, the dial with oval numeral plaquettes and twin-train movement stamped S. Marti 20165, striking on a gong, late 19th Century

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AN ORMOLU WALL CLOCK, the backplate surmounted by a laurel wreath, with triumphal pedestal supported by two fluted Corinthian capitals, hung with drapery, the circular clock case supported by a figure of Chronos seated upon a vase, the moulded base with four attendant cherubs emblematic of the Seasons, each with garlanded hair, the dial with oval numeral plaquettes and twin-train movement stamped S. Marti 20165, striking on a gong, late 19th Century
18in. (46cm.) wide; 47in. (119.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Designed in the 19th Century antique manner, incorporating Renaissance features with figures of a recumbent Chronos accompanied by putti, emblematic of the Seasons, in the Louis XIV style of André-Charles Boulle (d. 1732). Such neo-baroque clocks were designed by Albert Carrier-Belleuse in the mid-19th Century (See H. Ottomeyer, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, vol. 1, 1986, no. 6.2.2)

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