拍品 5
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A CHARLES X BRONZE AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK in the form of Minerva with circular ormolu dial as a shield with the signs of the Zodiac alternating with enamel numerals, borne by the Goddess with plumed helmet and wearing classical robes while holding a spear, on red marble rectangular pedestal with martial trophies flanked by anthemia, the sides with trophies emblematic of the Arts, on an ormolu plinth

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A CHARLES X BRONZE AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK in the form of Minerva with circular ormolu dial as a shield with the signs of the Zodiac alternating with enamel numerals, borne by the Goddess with plumed helmet and wearing classical robes while holding a spear, on red marble rectangular pedestal with martial trophies flanked by anthemia, the sides with trophies emblematic of the Arts, on an ormolu plinth
33¾in. (86cm.) high
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A clock of this model in the Schloss Gust, Stockholm, is illustrated in H.Ottomeyer & P.Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.II, p.397, no. 5.18.12. The body of Minerva is gilded.
Another with the same feature is illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, 2.partie, p.378