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A Louis XVI ormolu mounted and white marble striking figural mantel clock depicting a Bacchic scene
A Louis XVI ormolu mounted and white marble striking figural mantel clock depicting a Bacchic scene

ROBIN, PARIS. CIRCA 1790

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A Louis XVI ormolu mounted and white marble striking figural mantel clock depicting a Bacchic scene
Robin, Paris. Circa 1790
The drum case surmounted by the figure of a half-draped Bacchante and supported on a grape-festooned palanquin by two goat-riding cherubs, above D-ended plinth and on toupie feet, the white enamel dial signed Robin AParis in red, pierced ormolu hands, twin barrel eight-day movement with silk suspended pendulum with pierced bob depicting a birds' nest, countwheel strike on bell; pendulum, winding key
53 cm. high

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Nicole Verkade-Schraven
Nicole Verkade-Schraven

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Models of closely related design are illustrated in:
H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol.I, p.280, fig.4.13.1
G. Wannenes, Le Piu Belle Pendole Francesi - Da Luigi XIV all'Impero, Milan, 1991, p.89
Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Francaise, Paris, 1997, p.242, fig.B

Related clocks were sold: Christie's London, Important European Furniture, Sculpture, Tapestries & Carpets, 12 June 2003, lot 1072. And Christie's Amsterdam, The P.C. Spaans Collection of Important Clocks, 19 December 2007, lot 471