Lot 4006* - ibid137 Furniture - online only - Tuesday, 27. June 2023, 11.00 AM
MANTEL CLOCK
Louis XVI style, Paris, second half of the 19th century. The dial and the movement signed 'Bouquet à Paris' and numbered 3608.
"Gris Sainte Anne" marble and finely-chiseled bronze. Portal-shaped case, the top decorated with a vase, on scrolled supports decorated with berries and leaves on a bastion-shaped plinth and rectangular retracted feet. Opulently decorated with bows, decorative friezes, a laurel wreath, cornucopias, and eagle heads. Finely-painted and parcel-gilt enamel dial with the the hours and the minutes in Arabic numerals. Parisian movement, striking mechanism striking the 1/2-hour on bell. Free-standing.
46 × 20 × 54.5 cm.
An almost identical example, but entirely in bronze, is in the Collection du Mobilier National (GML-10252-000).
CHF 3 000 / 5 000 | (€ 3 090 / 5 150)
Sold for CHF 2 500 (including buyer’s premium)
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