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A late Louis XVI gilt-bronze mounted, white marble and enamel mantel clock, circa 1790, the enamel decoration attributed to Joseph Coteau

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decorated with urns and surmounted by an eagle, the blue enamel ground decorated with putti and nymphs in cartouches, the main circular white enameled dial displaying the hours, minutes in fifteen-minute intervals, the calendar days in Arabic numerals, as well as the days of the week with their corresponding astrological signs on the inner border, with five hands, two in gilt bronze and three in steel, the lower dial indicating the months of the year along with their zodiac signs by a steel hand, the upper dial showing the age and phases of the moon, on an enameled disk painted with a moon against a starry blue sky, resting on a rectangular base with a gilt bronze bas-relief of dancing putti, on four gilt toupie feet, signed « [...] à Paris » 


Haut. 48 cm, larg. 25 cm, prof. 12 cm ; Height 19 in, width 9 3/4 in, depth 4 2/3 in

Galerie B. Fabre & Fils, Paris, 1990

Related Literature

P. Kjellberg, La pendule française, Paris, 1997

A. Tardy, Les plus belles pendules françaises, Tome II, Paris, 1994