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Lot 108 THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE DUKE GUIDO BOREA D'OLMO
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
VERNEAUX, PARIS, CIRCA 1770-75
Closed6 July 2012
Price Realised
GBP 58,850
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Specialist note
Henry François Verneaux, maître in 1747.
A case of the same design with dial signed by Stollewerck is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 174, fig. E.
The D'Olmo family is recorded in Venice from the 12th Century. Moving to Lugo di Romagna and later ennobled by Pope Martin V in 1410. In the second half of the fifteenth century the family moved to San Remo. They received the titles of Marquis d'Olmo, later Duke, from the Royal House of Savoy.
A case of the same design with dial signed by Stollewerck is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 174, fig. E.
The D'Olmo family is recorded in Venice from the 12th Century. Moving to Lugo di Romagna and later ennobled by Pope Martin V in 1410. In the second half of the fifteenth century the family moved to San Remo. They received the titles of Marquis d'Olmo, later Duke, from the Royal House of Savoy.