Lot 244
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1780

Details
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
circa 1780
The circular enamel dial with roman and arabic chapters signed Millot à Paris, the twin barrel movement with countwheel strike on bell and silk-suspended pendulum, within an engine-turned band below a bacchante and a satyr above a grapevine-cast apron and a frieze depicting putti and a goat drinking amid a vineyard on engine-turned toupie feet, lacking pendulum
17in. (43cm.) high, 16in. (41cm.) wide, 4½in. (11½cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Pierre Millot was a successful horloger who supplied clocks for the grand Salon of the château de la Muette in 1764 and for the Académie Royale des Sciences in 1762. Related clocks with the figures of Cupid and Psyche are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, pp. 246-248, figs. 4.6.6 - 4.6.12.