A RESTAURATION BRONZE, ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK: 'STANDING ATHENA'

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A RESTAURATION BRONZE, ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK: 'STANDING ATHENA'

AFTER THE MODEL BY GÉRARD-JEAN GALLE. CIRCA 1820

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A RESTAURATION BRONZE, ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK: 'STANDING ATHENA'
AFTER THE MODEL BY GÉRARD-JEAN GALLE. CIRCA 1820
CASE: Athena in plumed helmet, on red marble plinth with double shield, lyre and palmette mounts, with ormolu base DIAL: shield-form ormolu dial with matted ground and low relief cast with the four seasons, individual white enamel chapters, blued steel Breguet hands MOVEMENT: twin barrels with anchor escapement and countwheel strike on bell; pendulum
34 1/8 in. (87 cm. ) high; 10 1/3 in. (26.5 cm.) wide; 7½ in. (19.5 cm.) deep

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Christie's London, 26 November 1996, the Property of a Gentleman.

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An almost identical Athena clock sold Christie's London, 9 December 2010, lot 317 (£46,850).Another is in the Spanish royal Collection. See J. Ramon Colon De Carvajal, Catalogo de Relojes Del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1987, p. 185, catalogue No. 165. Further clocks of this model are illustrated, H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 397, fig 5. 18. 12 and Tardy, French Clocks, Vol. II, Paris, 1981, p. 278. This last is in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris. Another example is in Schloss Ehrenburg at Coburg. Gérard-Jean Galle (1788-1846) was the son of Claude Galle (1759-1815). He supplied a model of this clock to Stockholm castle on 12 June 1823 as part of a larger delivery, at a cost of 1350 francs in part return for some Swedish porphyry.