A LOUIS XVI PASTE AND CUT STEEL-MOUNTED ORMOLU PENDULE A CERCLES TOURNANTES

CIRCA 1780, THE MOVEMENT LATER

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A LOUIS XVI PASTE AND CUT STEEL-MOUNTED ORMOLU PENDULE A CERCLES TOURNANTES
CIRCA 1780, THE MOVEMENT LATER
The movement with twin spring barrels with platform lever escapement and countwheel strike on a bell, the rotating chapter rings with Roman and Arabic enamel chapters with 'jewelled' borders and flanked to each side by a lion's mask suspending floral garlands and surmounted by a removable domed lid with Cupid, on a waisted fluted foot with foliate rims and a fluted shaft with chandelles with molded and laurel-rimmed foot, on a square base with foliate spandrels, regilt
21 in. (53 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This mantel clock relates to a small group of pendules à cercles tournantes that incorporates the same paste-rimmed enamel numerals, such as on an example with a sprially-fluted plinth surmounted by an infant in military regalia in the Wallace Collection, London (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, vol. I, cat. 102, pp. 453 - 459) and another with a serpent indicating the time on a handled vase which bears the plaque inscribed 'Pendule ayant appartenue à Marie Antoinette, reine de France et appartnenant maintenant à Théodore DE ROSIERS' which was in the Collection Double, sold Paris, 28 May 1881, lot 280.

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