A French ormolu and white marble striking mantel clock

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A French ormolu and white marble striking mantel clock

ANDRÉ PELIGOT. LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Details

A French ormolu and white marble striking mantel clock
André Peligot. Last quarter 18th Century
With white enamel Arabic dial signed Andrépeligot (sic), with criss-cross pierced gilt-metal hands, the eight day twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel with star crossings, strike on bell (lacking)
53cm. high

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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. Other versions of this model are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, Vol.I, p.280; in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française; and Tardy, French Clocks, Vol.II, Paris, 1981, p.20.

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