A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

Lot 30
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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ID 812956
Lot 30 | A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

THE MOVEMENT BY FRANÇOIS CARANDA, CIRCA 1785

Surmounted by a classical urn with ring handles above a circular glazed enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals crested by a ribbon bow and flanked by Satyr masks amidst oak leaves terminating in swags, on a pentagonal base decorated with fluted pilasters flanked by volutes on a breakfront plinth mounted with two seated Medici lions and decorated with scrolling foliate panels flanked by foliate rosettes, on stiffleaf-collared toupie feet, the dial signed 'CARANDA à VERSAILLES', '25028' inscribed on the reverse of the movement

17 3/4 in. (45 cm.) high; 16 in. (40 cm.) wide; 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) deep





Provenance

Probably delivered to the garde-meuble and recorded in 1788 in the cabinet of Thierry Ville d’Avray’s apartment in the hôtel de Garde-Meuble in Versailles.



Literature

P. Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 461.



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