18TH C. VIENNA PORCELAIN FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK ON AN ORMOLU BASE

The rectangular scroll-footed case surmounted by a fluted column and applied with a large swag of burgundy drapery, the winged and bearded figure of Chronos seated on the left and pointing to the clock face, a winged putto holding an hourglass aloft on the right, the cornice with a molded ovolo frieze, set with a rosette at the center and a ram's mask at each corner hung with laurel festoons, the later white enameled dial with Arabic and Roman chapter rings and pierced hands, signed Chles. Bertrand/A PARIS behind a glazed door, within a ribbon-tied laurel bezel, all set on a grassy base with two further putti, one with a sundial and the other with a later plomb line, the back of the clock with trailing branches, on a rectangular amaranth and ormolu base pierced with Vitruvian scroll, inscribed twice with an iron-red inventory mark Ke. 7814/29.514, and bearing a paper label with the same inscription251â„2 in. (65cm.) high.THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1770, TWICE MARKED WITH AN UNDERGLAZE BLUE BEEHIVE MARK AND PAINTER'S MARK OF THREE DOTS, THE BASE OF SIMILAR DATE.PROVENANCEThe Collection of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, either in Schloss Jungfer, Prague, or the Palais on the Schillerplatz, Vienna, from whom seized following the Nazi Anschluss, March 1938.Purchased by the Museum für Angewändte Künst, Vienna, June 1941. Restituted to the heirs of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer by the Republic of Austria in November 1999; Property from the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer; Christie's, New York, 22 May 2002, lot 475.Estimate $20.000-25.000