BY ARMINGAUD L'AÎNÉ, PARIS

Details

A Directoire ormolu and patinated bronze pendule au matelot
By Armingaud l'Aîné, Paris
The circular white-enamelled Roman and Arabic dial indistinctly signed with pencil Hacaux/1867 and signed Armingaud Lné/A Paris, the case modelled as a bale of cotton containing the movement with silk-suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike on a bell, flanked by a blackamoor leaning on the bale and an anchor and barrel to the other side, the canted rectangular panelled base with a relief depicting cherubs counting money and loading cargo on to a ship, on barrel feet, restorations
36.5cm. high x 30.5cm. wide x 11.5cm. deep

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Lot Essay

A virtual similar mantel clock Pendule en bronze doré et patiné figurant un amour sortant d'un casque is illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopedie de La Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, p. 343, fig. A.

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