THE MOVEMENT BY CHARLES-GUILLAUME MANIÈRE

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
The movement by Charles-Guillaume Manière
The circular white enamel Roman dial signed MANIERE A PARIS, the circular case surmounted by an eagle seated on flaming torches, above a spreading rectangular base centred by a bas-relief of two cherubs playing with a dove, flanked to the left by a reclining youth writing on a page and to the right by a seated maiden reading a book, the rounded rectangular panelled grey marble plinth centred by a bearded mask carried by winged putti and flanked by playing infant satyrs, on gadrooned toupie feet, the scrolling side mounts (not illustrated) to the base probably replaced
21½ in. (54.5 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) wide; 6 in. (15.5 cm.) deep

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拍品专文

Charles-Guillaume Manière, maître horloger in 1778.

The design for this clock is inspired by a drawing executed circa 1785 and attributed to the celebrated ciseleur-doreur François Rémond, which is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 295, fig. 4.17.5. The two seated figures derive from models of L'Etude and La Philosophie created for the Sèvres factory by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1780. The marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre commissioned Rémond to design the clock to incorporate Biozot's figures (C. Baulez, 'La Pendule à la Geoffrin', L'Estampille, 4 (1989), pp. 39-41). In 1788 Daguerre supplied two clocks of this model to Louis XVI for the Château de St. Cloud, which are discussed in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XViie Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 322, fig. 357. A virtually identical clock signed by Manière was sold in these Rooms, 14 December 2000, lot 198 (£28,200). Another closely related example was sold from Hackwood Park, Christie's House Sale, 20-22 April 1998, lot 77 (£ 23,000).