A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, the polychromed glazed enamelled dial with Arabic chapters for the days, hours and months signed Bruel AParis, the gadrooned bezel above a relief cast with two playful putto emblematic of love and carrying Hymen's torch and Cupid's bow, flanked by fluted pilaster-strips with chandelles, above a still-leaf collar flanked by garlanded leaves, fruits and grapes, the arched drum surmounted by a scene of Cupid presenting a heart to Venus, seated in a cloudburst, with an engraved inscription on a book Education de Venus A La Mour, the bow-fronted rectangular plinth inset with a further relief panel of playful putto, flanked by rosette panels and with ribbon-tied laurel to the sides, on reeded turned tapering toupie feet

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, the polychromed glazed enamelled dial with Arabic chapters for the days, hours and months signed Bruel AParis, the gadrooned bezel above a relief cast with two playful putto emblematic of love and carrying Hymen's torch and Cupid's bow, flanked by fluted pilaster-strips with chandelles, above a still-leaf collar flanked by garlanded leaves, fruits and grapes, the arched drum surmounted by a scene of Cupid presenting a heart to Venus, seated in a cloudburst, with an engraved inscription on a book Education de Venus A La Mour, the bow-fronted rectangular plinth inset with a further relief panel of playful putto, flanked by rosette panels and with ribbon-tied laurel to the sides, on reeded turned tapering toupie feet
18½in. (47cm.) wide; 25in. (64.5cm.) high; 5½in. (14cm.) deep

Lot Essay

An almost identical clock, restored by Lepante prior to being sent to the Chateau de Fontainebleau in 1804 for the deuxième salon de pape and recorded in the apartments of the Queen of Holland in 1810, is illustrated in J.P. Samoyault Le mobilier du général Moreau, Paris, 1992, p. 31, fig. 23

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