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A LATE LOUIS XVI PARIS BISQUE-MOUNTED, ORMOLU, BLACK AND WHITE MARBLE PORTICO CLOCK

CIRCA 1790

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A LATE LOUIS XVI PARIS BISQUE-MOUNTED, ORMOLU, BLACK AND WHITE MARBLE PORTICO CLOCK
CIRCA 1790
The circular glazed and enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapters signed 'Gavelle L'é AParis', within a drum case surmounted by a figure of Neptune and suspended from two fluted columns surmounted by an orrery and a globe, respectively, on lion paw feet and a circular shaft with love trophies and a cocave-sided and canted square base with chained pilasters and a guilloche panel on paw feet, on a stepped shaped rectagular plinth with gallery and central recumbent lion, restorations and losses to porcelain and to gallery of plinth
27½ in. (70 cm.) high, 20 in. (51 cm.) wide, 8 in. (20 cm.) deep

拍品专文

Gavelle L'Ainé refers to Pierre (1753 - 1802), maître in 1771.
A virtually identical clock, possibly the offered lot, is illustrated in M. Agnellini, Orologi Antichi - storia e produzione dal cinquecento all'ottocento, Milan, 1993, p. 138.