A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES BLEU DU ROI PORCELAIN CLOCK

Lot 28
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Lot 28 | A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES BLEU DU ROI PORCELAIN CLOCK
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£ 40 000 – 60 000
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES BLEU DU ROI PORCELAIN CLOCK

THE ORMOLU ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS RÉMOND, THE MOVEMENT BY JEAN MARTIN, CIRCA 1775

The ovoid body surmounted by a berried finial and mounted with female figures holding laurel leaf garlands, the movement signed 'MARTIN A PARIS'

21 in. (53.5 cm.) high; 11 in. (28 cm.) wide





Provenance

Collection of Sir George Lindsay Holford; sold Christie's, London, 13-14 July 1927, lot 200.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 December 1979, lot 54.

Collection of Suzanne Saperstein; sold Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2012, lot 230.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

H.D. Molesworth, Meubles d’Art, 544 chefs-d’oeuvre du XVIeau XXe siècle, Milan, 1969, p. 187, ill. 314.

G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, Vol. II, 1974, p. 774-775, cat. n° 208.

P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 214, ill. B.





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