AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK

CIRCA 1805

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1805
Depicting Diana the Huntress retrieving an arrow from her quiver and holding a dove in her hand, seated on a rocky outcrop enclosing a circular drum with white enamel dial with ormolu hands, twin-barrel movement with countwheel strike on a bell, on a bow-ended rectangular plinth with a relief panel of hounds attacking a deer and with ribbon-tied game, on turned tapering toupie feet, with pendulum and key, lacking glass backplate
18½ in. (47 cm.) high; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) wide

Acquired from André Mancel, Paris, 19 April 1974.

Note du spécialiste

An identical clock in the Palazzo Reale di Torino is illustrated in E. Niehuser, French Bronze Clocks, Atglen, 1999, p.220, 494 ref.55, 182.