A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE, POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND WHITE MARBLE CLOCK, CIRCA 1785

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE, POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND WHITE MARBLE CLOCK
CIRCA 1785
The original movement with two train going barrel anchor recoil escapement, pendulum silk suspension, count wheel striking on a bell, calendar hand of blued steel, hour and minute hand of gilded brass, the central lyre-form case headed by a jasper figural medallion and with clock face flanked by paired seated griffins on an incurved painted plinth mounted with jasperware portrait medallions, the works signed Cronier a Paris
28 ½ in. (72 cm.) high, 21 ½ in. (54.5 cm.) wide, 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) deep

Provenance
Almost certainly supplied circa 1786 to Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822) and his wife Archduchess Marie-Christine of Habsburg (1742-1798) for the château de Laecken.
Almost certainly removed to the Albertina Palace, Vienna circa 1794.
Thence by descent to their nephew and adopted son Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1771-1847).
By descent to his son Archduke Albert, Duke of Teschen (1817-1895).
By descent to his nephew Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (1856-1936), from whose collection sold Albert Kende auction house, Vienna, 10 February 1933, lot 45.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Monaco, 12 December 1999, lot 918.
Acquired from Jeremy, London.