AN ITALIAN WHITE- AND PALE-GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CLOCK

MID-18TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN WHITE- AND PALE-GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CLOCK
MID-18TH CENTURY
Of waisted form, with a white enamel dial with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, signed Pellegrino/A...orotti/Rome and with silent/strike Non Suona/Suona designations, with a false pendulum aperture to the matted center, the twin barrel movement with four rear-pinned baluster-turned pillars, verge escapement and rack strike and alarm on two bells, the case profusely carved with flowers, foliage and C-scrolls, the arched top surmounted by rockwork issuing crossed sickles, the sides with sounding panels carved with pierced entwined branches, on scrolled feet, the gilding largely original
30 in. (76 cm.) high, 14 in. (35.5 cm.) wide, 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Adolph Loewi, 1962.

Exhibited

San Francisco, Legion of Honor Museum, Time and Man, 1952, no. 36, (illustrated).
Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson Atkins Museum, Century of Mozart, 1956, no. 220.

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Lot Essay

The very naturalistic floral carving on this splendid clock is unusual to find on Italian furniture of this period. Similarly realistic flowers are found on a richly carved throne armchair from Naples, illustrated in E. Colle, Il Mobile Rococò in Italia, Milan, 2003, fig. 16, p. 85. Similar floral carving and fully-sculpted C-scrollls are also found on on a white-painted and parcel-gilt commode from Rome, (now in a private collection, illustrated in Ibid, fig. 136, p. 137) pointing to a possible Roman origin.

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