Live Auction 2504A Trumbauer Estate on The Philadelphia Main Line
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT GLASS MANTEL CLOCK
Lot 667

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT GLASS MANTEL CLOCK

BY BACCARAT, PARIS, CIRCA 1890

Closed15 April 2011

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USD 25,000

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT GLASS MANTEL CLOCK
BY BACCARAT, PARIS, CIRCA 1890
The barrel-form clockcase surmounted by courting doves, supported by a pair of basket-bearing winged sphinxes seated on an 'embroidered' and tasselled ormolu carpet, on a shaped base with toupie feet, the clockworks with Japy Frères cachet
16½in. (42cm.) high, 17½in. (44.5cm.) wide, 7in. (17.8cm.) deep

Property from a Private Collection; Etude Vincent Wapler, Paris, 4 July 1996, lot 435.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 April 2002, lot 235.

Specialist note

The Classical motif of the present clock derives from several models which appeared towards the end of the 18th century. A related clock with similar billing doves and sphinxes is based on a design by Jean Baptiste Lepaute (d.1801) and is currently part of the Wallace Collection (F269).
The design, with it's elegant sphinx supports, textured drapery, and oblong base, closely relates to a signed garniture by Baccarat sold by The Collection of Marshall B. Coyne, Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 2001, lot 250 ($104,250).