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A LOUIS XV PATINATED BRONZE, ORMOLU AND RED HORN STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK ON MUSICAL PLINTH: 'PENDULE AU SANGLIER'
THE CLOCK BY HENRI VOISIN, PARIS, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE PLINTH MID-18TH CENTURY AND ASSOCIATED
A LOUIS XV PATINATED BRONZE, ORMOLU AND RED HORN STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK ON MUSICAL PLINTH: 'PENDULE AU SANGLIER' THE CLOCK BY HENRI VOISIN, PARIS, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE PLINTH MID-18TH CENTURY AND ASSOCIATED CASE: modelled as a patinated bronze wild boar on naturalistic rockwork-cast base with scrolling foliate feet, supporting a drum case with floral spray mounts and topped by a seated Chinaman with umbrella, mounts re-gilt DIAL: white enamel, signed 'HENRI VOISIN/A PARIS', pierced ormolu hands MOVEMENT: rectangular plates with cut corners, twin barrels with silk suspension and countwheel strike on bell, with repeat signature; pendulum, key THE PLINTH: the associated gilt-decorated red-stained horn shaped plinth with foliate scrolled mounts and gadrooned border, the front centred by a red silk-backed pierced brass sound fret with ormolu musical trophy mount, a further fretted panel to each side, the rear fabric-covered and with fret panel, housing possibly associated pinned cylinder musical movement (eleven bells, nineteen hammers), on out-scrolled feet, the underside with printed paper label inscribed 'SHELBURNE' below an earl's coronet, also with red painted inventory number 'M.H/6185' 37 in. (94 cm.) high overall; the plinth alone: 13¼ in. (34 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) deep; the clock: 24 in. (61 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) wide; 6¼ in. (16 cm.) deep