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LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK
LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK

15.5in. (39cm) high; 12in. (30.5cm) wide; 7.5in. (19cm) deep.
£ 7,500.00
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A FINE LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA AND SIMULATED-MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK, THE TERRACOTTA BY JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN, CIRCA 1785.


The drum case modelled as a wine cask supporting a seated figure of the drunken Silenus flanked by twin naked Bacchantes, indistinctly signed to the rear 'Marin', the white enamel dial with gilt bronze bezel and Arabic hours and quarter hours, pierced gilt hands, the twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel striking via two hammers to bells (lacking); on a faux marble and giltwood plinth


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Provenance

Possibly acquired for Chesterfield House, London by Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947) and Mary, Princess Royal (1897-1965), where pictured in the White Drawing Room in 1922;
Removed to Harewood House, Yorkshire upon the sale of Chesterfield House in 1932, thence by descent.

Literature

Harewood House 1948 Probate Valuation, recorded in The Rose Bedroom, p. 60.

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