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A FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTLE CLOCK
A FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTLE CLOCK
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A FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTLE CLOCK

LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTLE CLOCK
LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
CASE: the architectural case surmounted by an urn above recumbent figures representing Night and Day, above a breakfront Rouge de France marble plinth with plaques depicting putti and centred by a lambrequin, on toupie feet DIAL: the polychrome decorated enamel dial indistinctly signed and pierced engraved hands MOVEMENT: twin barrels with recall anchor escapement and count wheel strike to bell, with pendulum and winding key
22 in. (56 cm.) high; 27¼ in. (69 cm.) wide; 7 in. (18 cm.) deep

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The figures representing Night and Day are based upon the marble figures executed by Michelangelo for the tomb of Giuliano de'Medici in the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo in Florence. The allegories subsequently appear flanking a clock in a drawing attributed to André-Charles Boulle which was formerly in the collection of the Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten, Berlin. In 1719 Boulle delivered to Machault d'Arnouville a bureau plat with cartonnier surmounted by a clock with the present figures flanking an hour glass with Father Time's scythe. In 1772, Jean-André Lepaute delivered a related clock to the prince de Condé's Palais-Bourbon, after a design by his architect Antoine-Mathieu Le Carpentier. A garniture centred by a virtually identical clock sold Christie's, New York, 21 April 2005, lot 560 ($26,400).