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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN LYRE CLOCK WITH SKELETONISED MOVEMENT
Lot 90

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN LYRE CLOCK WITH SKELETONISED MOVEMENT

BY DUBOS, PARIS, CIRCA 1780, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK

Fermé23 May 2012

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GBP 39,650

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN LYRE CLOCK WITH SKELETONISED MOVEMENT
BY DUBOS, PARIS, CIRCA 1780, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK
CASE: the case with sunburst Apollo mask cresting, beaded borders and draped swags with flowers, fruit and foliage DIAL: the white enamel dial with Roman hours and Arabic minutes and calendar, signed 'DUBOS A PARIS', pierced gilt hands MOVEMENT: the skeleton movement with twin barrels, pinwheel escapement and countwheel strike on bell, with bimetalic suspension to the paste gem encrusted beaded pendulum
23½ in. (59.6 cm.) high; 11 in. (28 cm.) wide; 6¼ in. (16 cm.) deep

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) (+), 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, W8, sold Christie's house sale, 27-29 April 1942, lot 157 (35 gns. 14s.).

Note du spécialiste

A very similar example of this model of clock was donated to the Louvre by S. de Rothschild and is illustrated in Pierre Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français de XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 41. Verlet mentions various other related clocks to the present lot, including one made for Louis XVI at Versailles.