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A Consulate gilt-bronze and patinated bronze mantel clock called ‘des Maréchaux’, circa 1800, the figures after a design by Louis-Simon Boizot

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September 23, 01:49 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 EUR

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Description

the figures as allegories of Reading and Writing, leaning against the dial, resting on a green marble base decorated with children and birds, topped by an eagle with outstretched wings, the marble plinth features a frieze of children, arabesques, and female head, resting on six ball feet, the white enamel dial is signed A PARIS

Haut. 52 cm, larg. 66 cm, prof. 15,5 cm; Height 20 1/2 in, width 26 in, depth 6 1/8 in

Sale Ferri, Paris, 10 June 2016, lot 147

The figures representing Reading and Writing were modelled by Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809) to be produced in biscuit porcelain at the Sèvres factory in 1776. The bronze artist François Rémond produced this model of clock around 1785–1790, with some examples being sold by the haberdasher Daguerre. A very precise drawing of this clock, probably from Rémond's commercial catalogue, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 295.

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