Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock
Merra a Paris, late 18th century
Having a white enamel black Roman and Arabic numeral dial, the hands and door frame fitted with round brilliant crystals, the two-train movement with outside count wheel and flat bottom plate enclosed within a drum-shaped case flanked and surmounted by military trophies, raised on a base in the form of a stage depicting an operatic scene from Sedaine’s comic opera Au Deserteur, ending in a conforming base and circular feet. Height 22 inches (56 cm), width 13 1/4 inches (33.5 cm).
Either Pierre Merra maitre 1772, or Pierre Martin Merra maitre 1773
Similar clocks sold:
Collection of Peter J. Sharp, Sotheby’s, New York, January 3, 1994, lot 34, Sotheby’s, Monoco, June 21-22, 1987, lot 991
Collection of Earl Of Rosebery, Sotheby’s, Mentmore, May 1977, lot 445
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, New York, November 9, 1985
Literature:
Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, ill., p.197., no.3.13.6
Condition report
Condition: works are late eighteenth or early 19th century; time and strike movement
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