A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

Lot 81
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Lot 81 | A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
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£ 25 000 – 40 000
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

LEPAUTE, PARIS, LATE 18TH CENTURY

The case shaped as a wine barrel, adorned with bacchic male and female satyrs, the rockwork base with vines, ewer, a tambourine and pipes, the shaped plinth with relief panels of further bacchic scenes in the manner of Clodion, raised on toupie feet, the white enamel dial, signed Lepaute / HGER. DU ROI, with Arabic hours and five minutes, pierced gilt hands and blued steel seconds hand, the twin barrel movement with pin-wheel escapement mounted to the backplate, later brocot regulation and countwheel strike to bell

21 in. (50.8 cm.) high; 23 1/4 in. (59 cm.) wide; 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm.) deep





Provenance

With Pietro Accorsi, Turin (according to paper label).

The Alberto Bruni Tedeschi Collection; Sotheby's, London, 21 March 2007, lot 133.



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