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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

CLAUDE GALLE, PARIS, CIRCA 1815

Details

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
CLAUDE GALLE, PARIS, CIRCA 1815
The case supported by two female figures, the dial signed 'Galle / RUE VIVIENNE No.9', the twin barrel movement with countwheel strike to bell
19 ½ in. (50 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 7 ½ in. (18.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 16 April 2007, lot 627.

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Lot Essay

A clock of the same model by Claude Galle and similarly signed to the dial as the present lot, sold Perrin-Royere-Lajeunesse, Versailles, 25 November 1984, lot 130. (H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 709, fig, 28.)

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