AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK MODELLED AS ATHENA

An apparently identical Athena (or Minerva) clock is illustrated in L. Montanes, Catalogo del Museo de Relojes de las Bodegas, Jerez de la Frontera, n.d., p. 38. and another (with different base mount) in P. Kjellberg, L'Encyclopedie de La Pendule Francaise, Paris, 1997, p. 412. A closely related model was sold Christie's New York, 22/23 October 2003, lot 763 and a slightly different version (the figure looking to one side) was sold in Segoura, Christie's New York, 19 October 2006, lot 21. An example attributed to Grard-Jean Galle, is in the Chateau de Malmaison (illustrated in B. Chevallier et al., Napoleon, exh. cat., Memphis, 1993, cat. 56. p. 71).