A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES BISCUIT-PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK by Jean Coteau, the circular glazed enamel dial with Arabic numerals signed Schmit a Paria, the laurel bezel set within a rectangular plinth surmounted by an allegorical figure emblematic of astronomy, upon a later English ebonised and parcel-gilt panelled base incorporating a Paris porcelain plaque of foliate arabesques on a pink ground signed Manufre. de Mse. le Duc D'angouleme A Paria, upon reeded ring-turned feet, the dial signed Coteau, restorations, distressed, the English stand first half 19th Century, the Paris porcelain plaque early 19th Century

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES BISCUIT-PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK by Jean Coteau, the circular glazed enamel dial with Arabic numerals signed Schmit a Paria, the laurel bezel set within a rectangular plinth surmounted by an allegorical figure emblematic of astronomy, upon a later English ebonised and parcel-gilt panelled base incorporating a Paris porcelain plaque of foliate arabesques on a pink ground signed Manufre. de Mse. le Duc D'angouleme A Paria, upon reeded ring-turned feet, the dial signed Coteau, restorations, distressed, the English stand first half 19th Century, the Paris porcelain plaque early 19th Century
14¼in. (36cm.) wid;e 18½in. (47cm.) high

Provenance

Almost certainly acquired by Peter Langford-Brooke (d. 1840)

Lot Essay

Jean-Nicolas Schmit, mâitre in 1781, flourished in the Rue Betizy, Rue Coquillière and the Rue du Coq St-Honoré between 1782 -9.

Joseph Coteau, the celebrated émailleur, maâitre in 1778

This 'French china timepiece (broken)' is listed in the Library in the 1840 Inventory

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