A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT SIGNED LECHOPIE, CIRCA 1785

Closed5 April 2022

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USD 18,900

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT SIGNED LECHOPIE, CIRCA 1785
The case surmounted by a cockerel standing on books, flanked by two allegorical figures representing 'La Science' and 'L'Etude', on a two tiered shaped rectangular base, mounted with panels of putti, on gadrooned bun feet, the circular white-enameled dial with Arabic numerals, with outer concentric calendar ring and quarter hour, the inner concentric ring with zodiac signs and week days, signed 'Lechopie A Paris', the movement signed 'Lechopie A Paris', the base marked '16808'
17 1⁄2 in. (44.5 cm.) high, 20 3⁄4 in. (52.7 cm.) wide, 5 in. (12.7 cm.) deep

Specialist note

A clock of this model, but with patinated bronze figures and variations to the base and its ormolu mounts, is in the Swedish Royal Collections, Stockholm, see H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschl, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol. I, München, 1987, p. 297, fig. 4.18.4. Other examples can be found in the Élysée Palace, Paris and the Imperial Palace in Pavlovks, St. Petersburg.