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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK: 'SEATED ATHENA'

THOMIRE & COMPAGNIE AND MOINET L' AINÉ. CIRCA 1820

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK: 'SEATED ATHENA'
THOMIRE & COMPAGNIE AND MOINET L' AINÉ. CIRCA 1820
CASE: Athena with her arm on leaf-tip-cast oval shield, rectangular marble base on lanceolate leaf-moulded plinth, on block feet DIAL: white enamel chapter ring within the shield, signed 'Thomire & Companie/Moinet L' Ainé', floral cast centre, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: with twin barrels, anchor escapement and countwheel strike on bell
28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 22½ in. (56.5 cm.) wide; 9½ in. (23.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The firm of Thomire & Cie was established by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843). Certainly one of the most important bronziers, he trained under Pajou and Houdon at the Académie de Saint-Luc and later under the bronzier Gouthière. Known as Thomire & Cie from 1819, the company ceased in the early 1850s.

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