AN EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO SIMON-LOUIS BOIZOT, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO SIMON-LOUIS BOIZOT, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The circular drum on a Roman barge with swans' head ends with Father Chronos seated holding an hour glass and with Cupid steering, on a canted rectangular base with watery top and scallop-shells to angles centered by a marine trophy, on later toupie feet, the underside with several unexplained and unused holes, lacking elements
23 in. (59 cm.) long

拍品专文

This clock model known as Le Voyage de l'Amour et du Temps is attributed to the sculptor Simon-Louis Boizot (1743 - 1809). Boizot was a student of M.A. Slodtz's and succeeded Etienne Falconet as directeur de la sculpture at the Sèvres manufactory 1773 - 1785. He later worked in conjunction with the celebrated sculptor Pierre-Philippe Thomire.

A virtually identical clock is in the Patrimonio Nacional in Spain (J. Ramon Colon de Carvajal, Catalogo de Relojes, Madrid, 1987, cat. 216, p. 232) and a clock of identical form but with patinated bronze figures and Siena marble base was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 30 October 1997, lot 112.