拍品 59
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An unusual Louis XVI ormolu, patinated bronze and paste-set 'opera' clock
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An unusual Louis XVI ormolu, patinated bronze and paste-set 'opera' clock

LATE 18TH CENTURY

细节
An unusual Louis XVI ormolu, patinated bronze and paste-set 'opera' clock
Late 18th Century
The drum-shaped case surmounted and flanked by military trophy mounts, above a base in the form of a stage, with a young couple and attending soldiers outside a prison, with paste-set bezel to white enamel Roman dial with outer concentric calendar ring, paste-set serpentine main hands and blued steel arrow date hand, the eight day movement with spring barrels, silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell; pendulum, winding key
18 in. (46 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品专文

The well detailed case of this clock depicts a scene from Sedaine's celebrated comic opera Le Déserteur, which was first played in 1767.
An identical clock (with musical movement to the base) is in the Pavlovsk Palace an illustrated in A. Vassilievna Alexeieva, Pavlovsk: The Collections, Paris, 1994, p.184, fig.4. A model signed by Jean Goyer is illustrated in Ottomeyer & Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol.I, p.197. A further example was sold from the collections of the Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore, Sotheby's House sale, 19 May 1977, lot 445.