AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

This clock is after a design by De Verberie inscribed Le Matelot in the Cahier de Dessin de Pendules of the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (of which some designs are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Proschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 381, fig. 5.15.28). A pen and ink drawing of this model inscribed Michel, no.120 aoust de dépot legal is in the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. This same model is illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Français du Moyen Age au XXe Siécle, Paris, 1997, p. 343, pl. A.