A Louis XVI ormolu-mounted porcelain and black marble mantel clock circa 1785, inscribed J. Robert et Fils et Cie.

Collection of an anonymous European collector, sold, Sotheby's, London, July 5, 2006, lot 167

WIth a later pendulum, and no winding keys. In excellent overall condition, with minor rubbing to the gilding on the ormolu and porcelain.
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An identical clock with movement by Roque and with porcelain obelisks decorated to depict the four Continents, is illustrated, J.D. Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, La Pendule à Paris de Louis XIV à Napoléon I, Geneva, 1997, p. 394, fig. 288.  Another identical example with obelisks decorated to depict mythological goddesses and musical trophies, formerly in the collection of a Gentleman of Title was sold, Sotheby's, London, May 19, 1972, lot 102.

These clocks derive from a design by Louis Prieur, conserved in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, illustrated, Ottomeyer, Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 253, fig. 4.6.28.