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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE FIGURAL STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'LA LISEUSE'
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE FIGURAL STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'LA LISEUSE'

FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Fermé1 July 2010

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND VERDE ANTICO MARBLE FIGURAL STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK 'LA LISEUSE'
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
White enamel dial signed ..mingaud Lne A Paris, ormolu hands, eight day twin barrel movement with countwheel strike on bell; pendulum
32 cm. high

Note du spécialiste

The design for this clock is inspired by the celebrated drawing executed circa 1805 and attributed to Jean-André Reiche, which is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer P. Pröschel et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 374, fig. 5.15.3.
Another version of the same model is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 398, ill. B.