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A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'AMERIQUE'
A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'AMERIQUE'

AFTER A DESIGN BY DEVERBERIE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'A L'AMERIQUE'
AFTER A DESIGN BY DEVERBERIE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The circular white enamel dial with pierced gilt hands surmounted by the figure with an alligator and palm tree, the movement with twin barrels, silk suspension and countwheel strike to bell; with pendulum, winding key
18 in. (46 cm.) high (2)

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Known as A La Sauvage, this allegory of L'Amérique is after the design signed and dated No.12 Deverberie due trois Pluviose an Sept (1799) in the cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.381, fig. 5.15.28). It is inscribed by the Parisian clock-maker and marchand mercier Jean Simon Deverberie (1764-1824), whose designs became so popular they were known as the 'pendules au bon sauvage' or 'style Deverberie', representing the French facination with the exotic.