A RESTAURATION ORMOLU PATINATED-BRONZE AND SIENA MARBLE 'DANCING FAUN' MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1825

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU PATINATED-BRONZE AND SIENA MARBLE 'DANCING FAUN' MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1825
Wearing a bearskin, his hands with cymbals next to a tree trunk cast with a dial and with applied Roman numerals, on a marble veneered plinth with waterleaf banding and winged paw feet
33½ in. (85 cm.) high, 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) wide, 11½ in. (29 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Denis Herbette, Doullens, France.
Property from the Collection of Ingrao; Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 2006, lot 140.

Literature

P. Kjellberg, Encyclopèdie de la pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 410, fig. d.

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Lot Essay

It is not known when the Antique original of this sculpture was found, but it is recorded in the Medici collection in Florence in 1665, although it is believed to have been transferred from the Medici Villa in Rome at an earlier date.

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