A RESTAURATION ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1825

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
Circa 1825
In the form of a female warrior, probably Minerva, Goddess of War, holding a spear and shield, the shield with a circular dial with Roman chapters, the hands issuing from a central medusa mask, on a rectangular rouge marble base with leaf-tip-cast ormolu plinth, the movement signed LESIEUR and the ormolu shield with impressed S
23½in. (60cm.) high

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A closely related clock attributed to Gérard-Jean Galle, with figure of Minerva, Goddess of War, the movement also incorporated in her shield, is in the château de Malmaison (illustrated in B. Chevallier et al., Napoleon, exh. cat., Memphis, 1993, cat. 56. p. 71). Two other Minerva clocks in the Spanish Royal collection are illustrated in J. Ramon Colon de Carvajal, Catalogo de Relojes del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1987, cat. 165, p.185, and cat. 229, p. 245, while a further clock of this model is illustrated in L. Montanes, Catalogo del Museo de Relojes de las Bodegas, Jerez de la Frontera, n.d., p. 38.

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