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Lot 270

A CHARLES X ORMOLU FIGURAL STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK DEPICTING THE FIGURE OF ORPHEUS

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed24 March 2010

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EUR 1,875

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A CHARLES X ORMOLU FIGURAL STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK DEPICTING THE FIGURE OF ORPHEUS
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Depicting Orpheus playing his lyre, engine turned dial, the plinth base applied with trophees allegorical for music and love, eight-day twin barrel movement, with silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell; pendulum and winding key
53 cm. high

Specialist note

A clock of similar design is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, La Pendule Francaise, Paris 1997, p. 405, ill. D