A RESTAURATION BRONZE, ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK: 'STANDING ATHENA'

LESIEUR AND PONS, AFTER THE MODEL BY GÉRARD-JEAN GALLÉ. CIRCA 1820

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A RESTAURATION BRONZE, ORMOLU AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK: 'STANDING ATHENA'
LESIEUR AND PONS, AFTER THE MODEL BY GÉRARD-JEAN GALLÉ. CIRCA 1820
CASE: Athena in plumed helmet, on red marble plinth with double shield, lyre and palmette mounts, with ormolu base DIAL: shield-form ormolu dial with matted ground and low relief cast with the four seasons, individual white enamel chapters, blued steel Breguet hands MOVEMENT: twin barrels with anchor escapement and countwheel strike on bell, back plate stamped 'LESIEUR' and the front plate 'Pons'; pendulum
35 in. (89 cm.) high; 10½ in. (26 cm.) wide; 7¾ in. (20 cm.) deep

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The correct estimate for this lot is £ 25,000-40,000.

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An Athena clock of closely related design is in the Spanish royal Collection. See J. Ramon Colon De Carvajal, Catalogo de Relojes Del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1987, p. 185, catalogue No. 165. Further clocks of this model are illustrated, H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 397, fig 5. 18. 12 and Tardy, French Clocks, Vol. II, Paris, 1981, p. 278. This last is in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris. Another example is in Schloss Ehrenburg at Coburg. Gérard-Jean Gallé (1788-1846) was the son of Claude Gallé (1759-1815). He supplied a model of this clock to Stockholm castle on 12 June 1823 as part of a larger delivery, at a cost of 1350 francs in part return for some Swedish porphyry.
Lesieur is recorded working at rue Vieille du Temple, 1806; rue de la Verrerie, 1812-1820; rue de la Verrerie, 1830-1850; Boulevard St. Martin, 1840. Honoré Pons (born c. 1780) is thought to have been apprenticed to Jean-André Lepaute. He revived the clockmaking industry of St. Nicolas d'Aliermont.