A CONSULAT PATINATED BRONZE, ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

SIGNED 'CACHARD', CIRCA 1800

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A CONSULAT PATINATED BRONZE, ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
SIGNED 'CACHARD', CIRCA 1800
With two-tone gilding, in the form of a classically-clad female figure tending to an athenienne issuing billowing smoke, the rim in the form of a black enamel cercles tournante dial with Roman hours and Arabic minutes chapters, the base of the athenienne in the form of a tripod supported by female winged caryatid supports, the sides mounted with stylized foliage, the base signed 'Cachard/suc.R de Ch. LeRoy', with a drapery-covered urn to one side, the rectangular canted base with a frieze cast with putti flying amid clouds with doves, the frieze with spring-loaded action to reveal winding holes, on bun feet, lacking to figure's hand, dial possibly redecorated
19 in. (48 cm.) high, 18 in. (45.5 cm.) wide, 7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) deep

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Gaspard Cachard, active circa 1800 on the Rue St. Denis, Paris.

A clock with a similar classical female figure tending to an athenienne but with a kneeling female figure and an oval white marble base is illustrated in E. Niehüser, French Bronze Clocks, Atglen, PA, 1997, p. 212, fig. 349. A further example on an oval ormolu base in the Musée François Duesberg, Belgium, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 249.