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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

THE MOVEMENT BY PROTAS

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
The movement by Protas
The circular enamelled dial with Roman chapters signed 'Protas à Lyon', surmounted by a bust of Apollo, the sides with lyres, on a stepped moulded base cast with palmettes and a verde antico plinth with turned feet
16 in. (41 cm.) high; 7½ in. (19 cm.) wide; 5½ in. (14 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

This clock, celebrating lyric poetry, is conceived as an altar to the sun deity Apollo, with his Grecian-style bust displayed on a sun-rayed altar, and its marble plinth enriched with a palm-flowered echinois moulding.
A clock of the same design appears on the mantlepiece in an 1811 drawing by A. Garnerey of Queen Hortense in her Drawing Room, rue Cerutti, Paris, reproduced in M. Praz, An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration, London, 1982, pl. 163, p. 197.

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