A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK BY...
The obelisk-form body with an armillary sphere finial, applied with a plaque depicting Cupid atop the globe, held aloft by two maidens, the white enamel dial with Arabic numbers, supported on draped sphinxes, on a black marble base hung with chains, the dial signed 'Hippolite Lapret', and by the enameller 'BARBICHON', the bell marked '379' in an old hand and inscribed illegibly at its interior
231⁄4 in. (59.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from Galerie Wemaere, Paris.
Lot Essay
Hippolite Lapret, maître horloger in 1786. A mantel clock by him in the chinoiserie taste, similarly in ormolu and black and white marble, is in the Cristina and Henry Ford II Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts (accession no. 73.271).
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The obelisk-form body with an armillary sphere finial, applied with a plaque depicting Cupid atop the globe, held aloft by two maidens, the white enamel dial with Arabic numbers, supported on draped sphinxes, on a black marble base hung with chains, the dial signed 'Hippolite Lapret', and by the enameller 'BARBICHON', the bell marked '379' in an old hand and inscribed illegibly at its interior
231⁄4 in. (59.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from Galerie Wemaere, Paris.
Lot Essay
Hippolite Lapret, maître horloger in 1786. A mantel clock by him in the chinoiserie taste, similarly in ormolu and black and white marble, is in the Cristina and Henry Ford II Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts (accession no. 73.271).
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