Lot 393
393
A Louis XVI ormolu and patinated-bronze mantel clock au lion
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of … Read more
A Louis XVI ormolu and patinated-bronze mantel clock au lion

BY BRILLE, PARIS

Details
A Louis XVI ormolu and patinated-bronze mantel clock au lion
By Brille, Paris
The white-enamelled dial with Roman chapters and Arabic numerals, signed BRILLE/A PARIS, with pierced hands set with simulated diamonds, the movement with silk-suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike on bell, the bezel with further simulated diamonds, within a drum case surrounded by a wreath of laurel and surmounted by an urn, supported by a lion, above a canted rectangular engraved base with an entrelac frieze hung with berried laurel swags, restorations
30.5cm. high x 18cm. wide x 9cm. deep
Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of the hammer price for lots with values up to NLG 200,000. If the hammer price exceeds the NLG 200,000 then the premium is calculated at 20.825% of the first NLG 200,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000.

Lot Essay

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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