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Obelisk clock from the Louis XVI period White and black marble, fire-gilt bronze, white enamel dial with black and purple lettering. Round pendulum movement with thread suspension of the pendulum, 14-day power reserve. Signed in purple "Dautel Fils A PARIS" on the dial. H 60.5 cm. Paris, Claude-Aimé-François Dautel, 1780s. Provenance Sotheby's Amsterdam, February 21, 1995. Literature Cf. Tardy, La pendule française, 2me Partie, Du Louis XVI à nos jours, Paris 1969, p. 263. Cf. Niehüser, Die französische Bronzeuhr. Eine Typologie der figürlichen Darstellungen, Munich 1997, fig. 1070. Cf. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris 1997, p. 219.
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Obelisk clock from the Louis XVI period White and black marble, fire-gilt bronze, white enamel dial with black and purple lettering. Round pendulum movement with thread suspension of the pendulum, 14-day power reserve. Signed in purple "Dautel Fils A PARIS" on the dial. H 60.5 cm. Paris, Claude-Aimé-François Dautel, 1780s. Provenance Sotheby's Amsterdam, February 21, 1995. Literature Cf. Tardy, La pendule française, 2me Partie, Du Louis XVI à nos jours, Paris 1969, p. 263. Cf. Niehüser, Die französische Bronzeuhr. Eine Typologie der figürlichen Darstellungen, Munich 1997, fig. 1070. Cf. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris 1997, p. 219.
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