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| Keywords: Sketch of a French Empire style cut crystal clock.jpg en Watercolour gouache and pen and ink on laid paper Numbered 9 Dimensions 50 8 cm by 33 7 cm To be executed in gilt bronze mounted cut crystal; enamel dial The dial to the front of the twin-handled urn its body cut with hobnails between fluted neck and base the handles springing from female zephyr masks and rising to scroll and flower terminals against the lip This model derives from an earlier model for an urn clock in gilt and patinated bronze by Claude Galle with Bacchus head mounts two of which were supplied in 1810 in differing sizes for the Grand Trianon Versailles The general form of these clocks derives from such late Louis XV ormolu-mounted covered baluster vase clocks as illustrated in Bellaigue 111-13 9 http //watercolours-drawings com/details asp subGalID 5 index 18 author between 1815 1820 PD-Art French Empire style mantel clock Sketches Ormolu | ||||
