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'A fine Louis XVI ormolu mantel clock, last quarter 18th…
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Melbourne
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29-Mar-2015
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'A fine Louis XVI ormolu mantel clock, last quarter 18th century. The circular white enamel dial with black Roman and Arabic numerals and inscribed Balthazar a Paris, the two-train movement contained within a drum-shaped case supported by a boat laden with wares, fitted at one side with the figure of a corsair and at the other side with a figure of Fortune above a cornucopia and flanked by a scroll inscribed 'Je vogue au gre de la fortune elle protege du dieu Neptune', surmounted by a pierced medallion incorporating a mask of Apollo, the pennant flying atop the mast inscribed on the reverse Julie Buyck 1783, the front with a putto holding a fishing line; the whole raised on a rectangular ormolu-mounted wooden base above ormolu feet. 18 cm high, 38 cm wide. Two almost identical clocks, often referred to as Au Corsair are reproduced', Tardy, French Clocks the world over, Vol. II, p.108-109. Provenance: Sotheby's New York
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Horology (Clocks & watches): Clocks - Figural