A CHARLES X ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK,
A CHARLES X ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK,

CIRCA 1825, SIGNED SEZILLE/PALAIS ROYAL N.133 À PARIS, WITH A LATER INSCRIPTION TO THE BASE,

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A CHARLES X ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK,
Circa 1825, signed Sezille/Palais Royal N.133 à Paris, with a later inscription to the base,
the white enamel circular dial with Roman and Arabic chapter ring signed Sezille/Palais Royal N.133 a Paris, in a rectangular faux book shelf, flanked by two figures reading, on an oval base hung with floral garlands, with a later inscription 1870.21.1920.'Why stay we on the earth unless to grow?', the back with stencil mark 190/F and black mark 56/1303
17in. (43cm.) high, 11½in. (29cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Louis Sézille, recorded in Paris at the Palais Royal, Gallerie de Pierre, 1818.

Another clock of the same design in the Musee de Cagny, Paris, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 430, fig. B. A third example with a case signed by Charles Oudin is also in the Musee de Niort.

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