LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The glazed white enamel circular dial with concentric indication for date and day of week signed 'Sotrian' and 'A PARIS' and eight day twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell, flanked by laurel branches and within a fluted column case, surmounted by a celestial globe and fringed drapery with laurel branches, flanked by a classically draped standing female and a seated youth, on a rectangular base mounted with classical oil lamps, on foliate toupie feet and a rectangular stepped and beaded bleu turquin marble plinth with turned feet
21 in. (53 cm.) high; 22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) wide; 6½ in. (17 cm.) deep

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拍品專文

This clock combines two different celebrated patterns of neo-classical clocks of the 1780s.
The first was the example for the left part of this lot. It is attributed to François Rémond -who was commissioned by the marchand mercier Dominique Daguerre- (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 295). Its seated figure derives from a model created by Louis-Simon Boizot for the Sèvres factory in 1780 and is an allegory for L'Etude; there are numerous exemples including one in the Jones Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum (illustrated ibid, p. 294). There are a number of variants of these clocks, including versions in the Royal Collection and at Versailles.
The right half derives from numerous patterns of clocks featuring a female standing near a bookcase or a column, a few of these are illustrated in E. Niehuser, French Bronze Clocks, Atglen, 1999, pp. 230-232.