A gilt-bronze and patinated-bronze mantel clock, attributed to Lenoir-Ravrio Restauration, circa 1825

the circular Roman chapter ring within a rock and flanked by Mercury, on a rectangluar plinth mounted with musical trophies, on acanthus-cast feet

In overall very good original condition. There is some wear to the gilding on both, the left and the right hand side of the clock which does not detract from the piece. There are some stains to the polished steel chapter ring. Can be placed immediately.
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Comparative Literature
Hans Ottomeyer, Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 400-1.

Two other very closely related versions of this clock by Louis-Stanislas Lenoir-Ravrio are known.
- One, of identical design, although executed entirely in patinated-bronze and on a marble base is in the Musée de l'Horlogerie in Geneva and illustrated in Ottomeyer/Pröschel, op. cit., p.400-1, fig. 5.18.26
- Another one, of identical design ,although executed entirely in gilt-bronze is in the Royal Pavillion in Brighton.

A lithograph of the present model is preserved in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet d'estampes Le 31a.

Antoine André Ravrio (d. 1814), maître founder in 1777, was amongst the most celebrated of the fournisseur officiel to Emperor Napoleon. In 1814, Louis-Stanislas Lenoir-Ravrio (d. 1846); succeeded to the family bronze-making business and at the Musée Industriel exhibition of 1819, it was commended as a 'manufacture: d'un excellent goût'.