A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK 'PENDULE A L'ETUDE'

The two seated figures derive from the models of L'Etude et la Philosophie created for the Sèvres factory by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1780. The design is believed to have derived from one by Dominique Daguerre who commissioned the bronzier Franois Remond to execute it in bronze circa 1783. In 1788 Daguerre delivered two of these clocks to Louis XVI for the Château de St. Cloud (see: P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Francais du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 322).