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A LOUIS XVIII ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK

A LOUIS XVIII ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK 1820, DESIGNED BY JEAN-CHARLES-FRANÇOIS LELOY, THE PLAQUES PAINTED BY JEAN-BAPTISTE IGNACE ZWINGER, THE ORMOLU BY BOQUET The circular white enamelled dial with Roman chapters signed J.J./Lepaute/Hr. du Roi & de la Ville/Rue St. Honoré No. 247 within a foliate-cast surround, the pylon-form case surmounted by a later vase with male mask-cast handles on a plinth inscribed DUM LOQUOR HORA FUGIT, ovide /LE MOMENT Où JE PARLE EST DéJà LOIN DE MOI, Boileau, the cresting cast with stars, over a frieze centering a panel decorated with a reclining water nymph, the case decorated with putti over a floral festoon above the goddess Leto and her two children Apollo and Diana, among foliate scrolls with frogs, the angles mounted with ribbed tapering columnar uprights, the sides with palmettes and foliate clasps, on a leaf-tip-cast base, above a palmette centered apron, on foliate-cast hoofed feet, the porcelain plaques with Sévres marks of interlaced Ls enclosing a fleur-de-lys and Sèvres above 20, one stencilled AN in red and incised Mo 6 26in. (66cm.) high, 14in. (35.5cm.)wide, 8in. (20cm.) deep