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    14 - 15 June 2016

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    • A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE, SILVERED
    Lot 425

    A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE, SILVERED AND JEWELED MANTEL CLOCK

    THE DIAL AND THE MOVEMENT LOUIS XVI, THE CASE LATE 19TH CENTURY

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    USD 13,750

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    USD 3,000 - USD 5,000

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    A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE, SILVERED AND JEWELED MANTEL CLOCK
    THE DIAL AND THE MOVEMENT LOUIS XVI, THE CASE LATE 19TH CENTURY
    The white-enameled dial signed 'BRILLE/A PARIS', with pierced hands set with simulated diamonds, the movement with silk-suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike on bell
    12 in. (31 cm.) high

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    Lot Essay

    The design for this clock is based on one from 1770 by Francois Vion and Pierre-Antoine Foullet (H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p.193, fig 3.11.6). Comparable pendules au lion are illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopedie de La Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, p. 278, figs. C-E.

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    This lot is offered without reserve.


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    PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION

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