A GILT-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE CERCLE-TOURNANTS MANTEL CLOCK, LOUIS XVI, SIGNED LEPAUTE HORLOGER |

depicting Thetis plunging Achilles in a urn forming a cercle-tournant clock

J.-D. Augarde, Les ouvriers du Temps. La pendule de Paris de Louis XIV à Napoléon Ier, Geneva, 1996, p. 149, fig. 113

The illustration of the catalogue is accurate. A very fine example in good overall condition. The white marble is in good overall condition. There are minute surface scratches to the gilding. The pearl frieze at the back has been replaced. Enamel numerals in good condition. Movement not inspected but appears to be complete and running, would benefit from a clean and service. Please note that we do not guarantee that the mechanism is in working order, it has to be checked by a professional clock restorer. Rare model.
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A similar clock, maybe our model, had been sold by Sotheby's Monaco, 27 May 1980, lot 872; another clock is in the Spanish Royal Collections (ill. by J.-D. Augarde, p. 149, fig. 113).