A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK WITH FIGURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

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A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK WITH FIGURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
DU BUC, PARIS, CIRCA 1805

The rectangular clock with brass mounts and an enamelled circular dial inscribed Du Buc, Rue Michel-le-Combe No. 33,A. above a bronze drapery swag inscribed Washington/the first in war, first in PEACE/and in his COUNTRYMENS' HEARTS," surmounted by a shielded spreadwinged eagle grasping an arrow and olive branch above a plinth inscribed E PLURIBUS UNUM, a flanked by a standing figure of Washington holding a scroll in his right hand and a sword in his left hand, all over a rectangular base with a gilded mount centering a female head, on chased ball feet--15½in. high, 9¾in. long, 4in. deep

来源

Sotheby's, New York, October 24, 1987, lot 437.

拍品专文

Similar clocks are in the collections of the White House and the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum. Another was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet as part of the Landsell K. Christie collection, October 21, 1972, sale 3422, lot 18