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A bronze, gilt-bronze and rouge griotte mantel clock, the dial signed Angevin à Paris Empire, early 19th century
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- 80cm. high; 2ft. 7½in.
in the form of a standing neo-classical female figure, holding a drum shaped case with black enamel dial with gilt Roman numerals within drapery, on an oval base, the front centred by an anthemion flanked by lions, the sides with two intertwined berried floral wreaths, on a rectangular plinth base
Catalogue Note
Comparative Literature:
Pierre Kjellberg, La Pendule Francaise, Paris, 1997, p. 382, fig. C, for a clock conceived in a similar vein on a different base.