Sale 1036
Paddington Town Hall Sydney
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30 April 2002
Price realised
AUD 11,162
Estimate
A LOUIS XVI BRONZE AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK Circa 1780, the movement signed 'Chles Dutertre Paris' The circular glazed enamel dial with roman numerals with a guilloché bezel surmounted by a cockerel, a bust and a sculptor's chisel, with a bronze putto seated on books, studying a drawing, the plinth with central foliate clasp; a band of guilloché and acanthus bosses to each corner above the moulded feet Charles Dutertre, maître in 1758. A clock of the same model is at the Château de Fontainebleau and further examples are illustrated in:- Les Plus Belles Pendules Françaises, Tardy, Volume II, p. 35 and - Die Französische Bronzeur by Elke Niehüser, Callwey, 1997, p. 209 30 cm (12 in.) wide; 30 cm (12 in.) high; 12 cm (4 3/4 in.) deep
Provenance
Fermier Generale Jacques Delahante who was a member of the Comité des Caisses and president of the Comité des Tabacs during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI
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