A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE AND PORTOR MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY FRANCOIS REMOND

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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE AND PORTOR MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK
Early 19th Century, after a design by Francois Remond
The circular glazed and enamelled dial, with Arabic chapters inscribed Kinable, within a drum case with trailing flowers and surmounted by a laurel-swag and oval urn with floral finial, on a spreading rectangular plinth with central plaque of two playing putti, flanked to either side by a Greek figure reading, on a breakfront stiff-leaf rim and inverted breakfront rounded rectangular panelled base centred by a maiden's mask and scrolling foliage, the sides with a flowerhead medallion, on a beaded rim and conforming lower plinth with gadrooned bun-feet, with winder and pendulum, the urn and trailing foliage probably later
28 in. (71 cm.) wide

拍品专文

D.D. Kinable was active at the Palais Royale, Galerie de Pierre from 1794-1830.

This clock is directly inspired by the celebrated design of the ciseleur-doreur François Rémond of circa 1785. (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, p. 295 fig. 4.17.5) Instead with a husk-trailed urn and roses replacing the eagle, the two seated figures represent L'Etude and La Philosophie and were originally created for the Sèvres Factory by Louis-Simon Boizot in 1780. It was the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre who commissioned Rémond to design the clock to incorporate Boizot's figures (C. Baulez, 'La Pendule à la Geoffrin', L'Estampille, April 1989, p. 39-41).