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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK 'PENDULE A L'ETUDE'
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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK 'PENDULE A L'ETUDE'

LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK 'PENDULE A L'ETUDE'
Late 18th Early 19th Century
The circular Arabic-chaptered dial with pierced gilt hands and signed 'A Paris' and decorated à la Dauphine with floral swags, in a drum-shaped case below an eagle and standing on a plinth with a central panel of putti lecturing a dove, flanked by a seated male and female figures, her reading and him writing, on a rounded rectangular plinth with central mount of putti flanking a mask, flanked by inset roundels with Apollo masks and on gadrooned bun feet, the enamel dial signed 'King'
27 in. (69 cm.) wide; 20½ in. (52 cm.) high; 6 in. (15 cm.) deep
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The two seated figures derive from the models of L'Etude et la Philosophie created for the Sèvres factory by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1780. The design is believed to have derived from one by Dominique Daguerre who commissioned the bronzier Franois Remond to execute it in bronze circa 1783. In 1788 Daguerre delivered two of these clocks to Louis XVI for the Château de St. Cloud (see: P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Franais du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 322)