Lot 105
105
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

Details
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
LATE 18TH CENTURY

The white enamel dial with roman chapters signed Lepine, Hor. du Roi Place des Victoires, the movement signed Lepine, Her du Roy à Paris, No. 4268, with aperture for pendulum adjustment and lever to release striking, pierced gilt fleur-de-lys hands, the movement with anchor escapement, thread suspension to false gridiron pendulum, striking the hours and half hours by means of countwheel, surmounted by the figure of a nude and drunken bacchante carried on a lambrequin-draped palanquin supported by two putti on the backs of two seated goats, a garland suspended between them, on a white marble plinth with leaftip-cast moulding, on toupie feet--19in. (48.25cm.) high, 15in. (38cm.) wide, 5in. (12.75cm.) deep

JEAN-ANTOINE LEPINE (1720-1814
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, 19 May 1988, lot 66

Lot Essay

This model incorporating a drunken bacchante and goats symbolizing Bacchus was popular in Paris in the 1780's and was executed by numerous bronziers. A virtually identical clock is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. I, p. 280, fig. 4.13.1) and other examples are illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, vol. II, 1949, pp. 231, fig.1 and sold Sotheby's London, 11 December 1981, lot 100.
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