Lot 64
A FINE LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU WHITE AND GREY MARBLE STRIKING PORTICO CLOCK WITH CALENDARsigned Drouot à Paris last quarter 18th century
14 April 2022, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$6,000 - US$9,000
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A FINE LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU WHITE AND GREY MARBLE STRIKING PORTICO CLOCK WITH CALENDAR
signed Drouot à Paris
Date: last quarter 18th century
Movement: Circular plates, anchor escapement, thread suspended later guilloche pendulum, striking the hour and half hour on a bell by means of a crossed out countwheel
Dial: White enamel, bold roman chapters within date ring, gilt pierced fleur de lys hands
Case: Surmounted by urn draped in leafy swags, supported by a pair of musical infant fauns seated on a white marble pediment above six fluted grey columns with gilt swags between all on stepped oval plinth
Size: 29 1/2 in (75cm) high
Date: last quarter 18th century
Movement: Circular plates, anchor escapement, thread suspended later guilloche pendulum, striking the hour and half hour on a bell by means of a crossed out countwheel
Dial: White enamel, bold roman chapters within date ring, gilt pierced fleur de lys hands
Case: Surmounted by urn draped in leafy swags, supported by a pair of musical infant fauns seated on a white marble pediment above six fluted grey columns with gilt swags between all on stepped oval plinth
Size: 29 1/2 in (75cm) high
Footnotes
The portico clock was one of the most successful neoclassical innovations of the Louis XVI period. The form exists in countless variations. This example features infant fauns playing music, elements found in related clocks, but the present composition appears to be unique. For a discussion of the portico see: Pierre Kjellberg. Encyclopédie de la Pendule Français (1997) pp. 196-205.
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