CIRCA 1765

Details

A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1765
The circular glazed enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters inscribed 'Cronier A PARIS', the stiff-leaf bezel in a reeded drum on a fluted pilaster surrounded by clouds and flanked by a lady holding a map of France and a putto, on a bow-fronted rectangular base with pierced red fabric-backed foliate panels with laurel swags, on fluted feet
19½ in. (50 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in London, 24 October 1947.

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Lot Essay

Antoine Cronier, maître-horloger in 1763.

Lyric poetry is celebrated by celestial Venus guiding Cupid, while the map of France is displayed on a laurelled altar-pedestal, whose mosaic-fretted trellis recalls the dome of Rome's Temple of Venus.

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