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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK: 'LOVE'S PEDESTAL'
Lot 200

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK: 'LOVE'S PEDESTAL'

THE CASE BY ROBERT OSMOND, CIRCA 1780; THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT CIRCA 1800/10

Closed8 December 2011

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GBP 3,500

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK: 'LOVE'S PEDESTAL'
THE CASE BY ROBERT OSMOND, CIRCA 1780; THE DIAL AND MOVEMENT CIRCA 1800/10
CASE: modelled in the round as a fluted pedestal topped by two billing doves atop a cloud, with berried laurel garland around the foot and another tied with a ribbon around the dial, the square plinth stamped 'OSMOND' to the rear DIAL: within anthemion bezel, white enamel, ormolu hands MOVEMENT: twin barrels with silk suspension to anchor escapement, countwheel strike on bell; pendulum
13¼ in. (34 cm.) high; 6¼ in. (16 cm.) wide; 6¼ in. (16 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Robert Osmond, maître-fondeur en terre et sable in 1746 and appointed juré des fondeurs in 1756.
Osmond produced this 'pedestal' clock in two versions: one with a vase to the top (see P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie De La Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe Siècle, Paris, 1997, pp. 185 and an example sold Christie's Amsterdam, the property of a Dutch Nobleman, 19 September 2007, lot 324, 7450 Euros); and the other with two doves (see Tardy, French Clocks the World Over, Part Two, Paris, 1981, p. 52).