Lot 40
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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1817

Details
A RESTAURATION ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
circa 1817
The white enamel Roman chapter disc with blued moon hands, the twin barrel movement with anchor escapement and silk suspended pendulum, countwheel strike on bell, the case emblematic of chivalric love with shouldered clock case surmounted by an axe and shield cast with the word Mistèr, the front with a military trophy cast with the word Amour, the soldier to the side holding a spear in one hand and a miniature portrait of his lover in the other, the rectangular base applied with an octagonal panel cast in relief of a soldier praying at an altar with his horse and servant in attendance, on winged paw feet
15in.(38.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

A drawing of a clock with a base of related design, from a bronzier's album of eleven drawings attributed to Soyez, currently in the Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, is illustrated in Ottomeyer/Proschel Vergoldete Bronzen, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1986, Vol.I, p.378, fig. 5.15.17. The tableau illustrated on the octagonal panel differs but is thematically similar with its depiction of chivalric virtue.