A Louis XVI ormolu and white marble mantel clock Circa 1785

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Description

height 14in.; width 12 1/2 in.
(35.56cm; 31.8cm.)

the white enamelled dial and two-train movement in a rectangular case flanked by a putto and a draped female figure centered by doves on cloud banks, raised on a rectangular base of breakfront outline fitted with ormolu drapery and raised on ormolu hoof feet.

Catalogue Note

This clock is based on a model, "La Douleur" by François Vion a drawing of which is conserved in the Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris, reproduced, Ottomeyer, Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 247. The present model differs in that the female figure is emblematic of love, rather than of sadness.