A Louis XIV style ormolu-mounted cut brass-inlaid tortoiseshell-veneered and ebonised mantel clock**

AFTER THE MODEL BY ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE, BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1881

Details

A Louis XIV style ormolu-mounted cut brass-inlaid tortoiseshell-veneered and ebonised mantel clock**
After the model by Andre-Charles Boulle, By Henry Dasson, Paris, Dated 1881
Modelled with a wreath-bearing seated figure of Venus with foot resting in a conch-shell, Cupid with his bow standing at her side, the floral-garlanded drum-shaped case with rosette-cast bezel and gilt dial cast in relief with six airborne putti clinging to the inset blue and white enamelled plaquettes, the back with pierced door, on a shaped base inlaid with circled rosettes, on acanthus-cast ball feet, signed and dated to the left side Henry Dasson 1881
31 in. (78.7 cm.) high

Literature

P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection - Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, Vol. I, pp. 354-9.

Lot Essay

The original model attributed to André-Charles Boulle, now residing in the Wallace Collection, is considered one of three known clocks which may been manufactured under his direction. François Linke also reproduced the model several times in ormolu and patinated bronze, with movements by Maxant and Foucher. Another example of this model clock by Henry Dasson sold Sotheby's New York, 3 November 1999, lot 363 ($23,000).

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