An Empire ormolu and marmo verde antico striking mantel clock, circa 1805

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An Empire ormolu and marmo verde antico striking mantel clock, circa 1805
Modelled with a classical female figure seated in an armchair at a table and reading, a Grecian style oil lamp to one side and a stack of volumes on the ground, the table cast with drapery and on paw feet, set with a white enamel Roman dial with Arabic quarters, signed Bovard à Paris, ormolu hands, on rectangular marmo verde antico base and raised on bell-shaped feet, the twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell -- 13in. (33cm.) high
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拍品专文

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Pierre Kjellberg, La Pendule Francaise, Les Éditions de l'amateur, Paris, 1997, p.398, fig.B; Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich, p.374, fig.5.15.4.
'La Liseuse' is after a model by the bronzier Jean-André Reiche. The example in Kjellberg has dog standing by the chair rather than a stack of books and a different gallery mount. An almost identical model to the present example (with different feet) was sold Christie's South Kensington house sale Le Bois Muralt, 18 and 19 January 2000, lot 1006.