Live Auction 14193Robert de Balkany Rome & the Côte d'Azur
A EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
Lot 462

A EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 March 2017

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GBP 11,875

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A EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The case surmounted by a flute-playing figure of Orpheus with animals, the enamel dial signed 'Robert Voisin a Paris', the twin barrel movement with later Brocot regulation, countwheel strike to bell
21 ½ in. (55 cm.) high; 18 ½ in. (47 cm.) wide; 6 in. (15 cm.) deep

Specialist note

For related examples, see E. Niehüser, French Bronze Clocks, Munich, 1999, p. 234, no. 784, and Colon de Carvajal, Catalog de Relojos del Patrimonio National, Madrid, 1987, p. 352, cat. 343.