拍品 33
33
A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, the glazed circular enamelled dial with Arabic numerals signed 'Humbert droz/A PARIS', the drum surmounted by a reclining Bacchante and resting upon a pair of lambrequin-draped poles engraved with a snake-entwined caduceus with garlanded vines below, the whole supported upon the shoulders of ram-riding cherubs seated upon bow-ended plinths with mille-raies panels and with central fruiting boss, inset with a relief of the Marlborough Gem flanked by Cornucopiae, upon turned waisted baluster feet, the later movement stamped '3393'

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A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, the glazed circular enamelled dial with Arabic numerals signed 'Humbert droz/A PARIS', the drum surmounted by a reclining Bacchante and resting upon a pair of lambrequin-draped poles engraved with a snake-entwined caduceus with garlanded vines below, the whole supported upon the shoulders of ram-riding cherubs seated upon bow-ended plinths with mille-raies panels and with central fruiting boss, inset with a relief of the Marlborough Gem flanked by Cornucopiae, upon turned waisted baluster feet, the later movement stamped '3393'
20½in. (52cm.) High
16¼in. (41cm.) Wide

拍品专文

Humbert Droz flourished circa 1773-74

A closely related Bacchante clock is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and
P. Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, p.280, fig. 4.13.1.. A related version was sold Anonymously at Sotheby's New York,
31 October 1986, lot 34.