Lot 555
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

BY CLAUDE CHARLES FRANÇOIS FILON

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
By Claude Charles François Filon
The glazed circular white enamel dial with Arabic chapters and outer concentric calendar ring, the twin barrel movement with silk suspension and counterwheel strike on bell, signed 'FILON A PARIS' and with the emaillieur mark 'COTEAU', in a drum-case surmounted by reclining Classical maiden drinking out of a cup, supported by two draped poles hung with garlands of grapes and carried by two winged putti riding on billy-goats, on a moulded rounded rectangular plinth, the panelled frieze decorated with foliate garlands and strapwork, on toupie feet
19 in. (48.5 cm.) high; 15½ in. (39.5 cm.) wide; 5¼ in. (13.5 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The clock celebrates Love's triumph by evoking the 'Feast of Bacchus' with an Arcadian satyr-nymph reclined, with raised wine-tazza, on a vine-festooned palanquin borne by Cupid-driven and grape-eating bacchic goats. This clock, after a model introduced in Paris in the 1780s, bears a movement with the name of Claude Charles François Filon, who was established in Paris in the 1780s. It also bears the name of the enamel painter Jean Coteau (d.1810). Other vesrions of this model are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. 1, p. 280; and G.Wannenes, Le Piu Belle Pendole Frencesi - Da Luigi X1V all' Impero, Mailand, 1991, p. 89.

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