Lot 20
20
The Estate of the late EARL AMHERST MC Sold by Order of the Executors
A RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE CLOCK in the form of a putti charioteer standing in a gadrooned chariot mounted with griffins and a leopard-mask-tail, the wheels incorporating a dial with Arabic numerals and with a simulated dial to the reverse enclosing a later English movement, upon a stepped rectangular plinth mounted with Cupid's garlanded bow and quivers, similarly mounted to the reverse and with crossed ribbon-tied arrows within a wreath to the ends, upon claw feet

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE CLOCK in the form of a putti charioteer standing in a gadrooned chariot mounted with griffins and a leopard-mask-tail, the wheels incorporating a dial with Arabic numerals and with a simulated dial to the reverse enclosing a later English movement, upon a stepped rectangular plinth mounted with Cupid's garlanded bow and quivers, similarly mounted to the reverse and with crossed ribbon-tied arrows within a wreath to the ends, upon claw feet
18in. (46cm.) wide; 14½in. (37cm.) high; 5in. (12.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This clock is after the model attributed to Ravrio and delivered by Bailly in October 1806 for La Secretairerie d'Etat de L'Empire francais at the Chateau de Fontainebleau (see J-P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris 1989, no. 16)

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