拍品 708
708
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. BRUCE WILSON, MEMPHIS, TN (LOT 708)
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1780
With circular enamel and ormolu dial surmounted by a marble urn with ormolu fruit and floral swags flanked by recumbant lions, above double fluted Corinthian column supports over marble base set with trailing foliate ormolu friezes
26½ in.(67 cm.) high, 20½ in. (52 cm.) wide, 6¼ in. (16 cm.) deep

拍品专文

A mantle clock of somewhat similar design, with the clockworks signed Caillouet Hèger á Paris, was sold at Christie's, New York, November 14, 1985, lot 60. Jean Caillouet, born 1733, was recorded as working in the rue Gervais Laurent in 1765.