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拍品 106
A BERLIN (K.P.M.) FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1914-1918, BLUE SCEPTRE, IRON-RED ORB AND BLACK MALTESE CROSS MARKS, THE MOVEMENT STAMPED LENZKIRCH, AOG, U, MILLION, 123, 918995, AND AGUL H5 WITHIN OVAL
已結束2008年10月21日
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USD 22,500
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The central element of the present clock, the star-studded sphere with a calendar ring with the signs of the Zodiac, the whole supported on four sphinxes and standing on the roof of an Egyptian temple, is almost certainly based on a design by Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine. A watercolor for a closely related Pendule égyptienne à sujets featured as Plate VIII in their engraved pattern-book Recueils de Décorations Intérieures, published in 1801. Compare The Wildenstein Collection, Christies, London, 14 & 15 December 2005. Related clocks with this central element were supplied by to the château de Fontainebleau and to the Grand Trianon at Versailles.