THE PROPERTY OF A PRINCESS

A LOUIS XVI WHITE MARBLE, ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING AND CALENDRICAL MANTEL CLOCK: 'LOVE'S TRIUMPH'

FOLIN L'AINÉ, PARIS. CIRCA 1790

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A LOUIS XVI WHITE MARBLE, ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING AND CALENDRICAL MANTEL CLOCK: 'LOVE'S TRIUMPH'
FOLIN L'AINÉ, PARIS. CIRCA 1790
CASE: reclining female figure to drum case supported by two putti riding goats, moulded rounded plinth with inset panel cast in relief with putti and flanked by two rosettes (one replaced), toupie feet (two lacking) DIAL: white enamel dial with painted floral decoration, inner date ring, signed 'Folin L'ainé/A PARIS', ormolu main hands, blued steel calendar hand MOVEMENT: with twin going barrels, anchor escapement and countwheel strike on bell; replaced sunburst pendulum
19¾ in. (50 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) wide; 4¾ in. (12 cm.) deep

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 280, fig. 4.13.1; P. Kjellberg, L'Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 242, fig. B
This clock, after a model introduced in Paris in the 1780s, celebrates Love's triumph by evoking the 'Feast of Bacchus'. Similar examples have been sold: the Spaans collection, Christie's Amsterdam, 19 December 2007, lot 471 (10,200 euros); the Property of a European Lady, Christie's Amsterdam, 21 September 2001, lot 447 (10,755 euros); and anonymous sale, Christie's London, 13 December 2001, lot 555 (£7,050). The latter example was signed by Claude Charles Filon.