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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-BAPTISTE OSMOND, THE MOVEMENT BY ROBERT ROBIN

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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Osmond, the movement by Robert Robin
The circular white-enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic numerals and the movement signed 'Robert Robin a Paris', within a drum-shaped case surmounted by ribbon-bound oak-leaf, on a fluted column support with laurel-wreath base, flanked by a classically-draped maiden holding a compass to one side and a globe to the other, the stepped rectangular convex-fronted base decorated with panels of Vitruvian scrolls, on turned feet, the bell inscribed '...de..Couturier'
20½ in. (52 cm.) high; 16 in. (41 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep
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Robert Robin, maître in 1767 and appointed horloger du Roi in 1785.

Astrology is represented on this mantel clock by the figure of Urania with a collection of astronomical instruments and charts scattered around her. The model is loosely based on a drawing by Jean-Louis Prieur, dated around 1766, for a clock intended for the Royal Palace in Warsaw. Pierre-Antoine Foullet included a similar drawing for a mantel clock with Urania in his Livre de desseins, which was described as Pièce de Bureau and priced at 341 Livres.

A closely related model of this clock attributed to Robert and Jean-Baptiste Osmond in the Landesmuseum, Stuttgart is illustrated in H.Ottomeyer, P.Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.166, fig.3.4.3; while another clock with Urania, also signed by Robin, based slightly closer on Foullet's drawing, was sold anonymously, Christie's Monaco, 13 December 1998, lot 344 (FF 69,000).