Live Auction 5988Christie's Interiors - Style and Spirit
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK MODELLED AS ATHENA
Lot 535 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK MODELLED AS ATHENA

CIRCA 1815

Closed28 September 2010

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK MODELLED AS ATHENA
CIRCA 1815
The goddess with spear and shield, on marble base with wreath and palmette mount, above moulded ormolu plinth, dial within the shield, Medusa mask to centre, blued steel hands (replaced) MOVEMENT: twin barrels, anchor escapement, countwheel strike on bell; pendulum, winding key
23¾ in. (60 cm.) high; 10½ in. (27 cm.) wide; 6 in. (15 cm.) deep

Specialist note

An apparently identical Athena (or Minerva) clock is illustrated in L. Montanes, Catalogo del Museo de Relojes de las Bodegas, Jerez de la Frontera, n.d., p. 38. and another (with different base mount) in P. Kjellberg, L'Encyclopedie de La Pendule Francaise, Paris, 1997, p. 412. A closely related model was sold Christie's New York, 22/23 October 2003, lot 763 and a slightly different version (the figure looking to one side) was sold in Segoura, Christie's New York, 19 October 2006, lot 21. An example attributed to Grard-Jean Galle, is in the Chateau de Malmaison (illustrated in B. Chevallier et al., Napoleon, exh. cat., Memphis, 1993, cat. 56. p. 71).