Lot 513
513
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

THE MOVEMENT BY ANTOINE ANDRÉ RAVRIO OR LOUIS-STANISLAS LENOIR-RAVRIO

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
The movement by Antoine André Ravrio or Louis-Stanislas Lenoir-Ravrio
The circular Roman chapter ring signed 'RAVRIO A PARIS', centred by pierced palmettes and foliage, within a lyre and flanked by a classical warrior, on a rectangluar stepped by a quiver and a torch to the other side, the plinth mounted with swans, butterflies and garlands, on bell-shaped feet
16½ in. (42 cm.) high; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide 5½ in. (14 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

Antoine André Ravrio (d. 1814), maître founder in 1777, was among the most celebrated of the fournisseur officiel to Emperor Napoleon. In 1814 Louis-Stanislas Lenoir-Ravrio (d. 1846); succeeded to the family bronze-making business, and at the Musee Industriel exhibition of 1819 it was commended as a 'manufacture: d'un excellent gout'.

Another version of this model, bearing a movement signed by the Parisian clockmaker Michelez (fl.1811-25) is illustrated in J.-D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps - La Pendule à Paris de Louis XVI à Napoleon 1er, Geneva, 1996, fig. 154.

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