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A Charles X patinated bronze and Siena marble mantel clock circa 1830, dial signed Cailleaux Rue de Richelieu No. 89, movement signed Hemon à Paris
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- PATINATED BRONZE, MARBLE
- height 23 in.; width 9 in.; depth 6 1/4 in.
- 58.5 cm; 23 cm; 16 cm
surmounted by the bust of Homer
Catalogue Note
Cailleaux is documented on rue du Temple between 1842 and 1870. A design from 1820 for a similar model signed 7960/C hnhs/m crhs/Homere is in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris and illustrated in Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. 1, Munich, 1986, fig. 5.14.7.