18th Century Clock By Pierre Rive In Colmar

Mantel clock 18th Century Louis XVI Study And Philosophy Ormolu Mantel Clock by Piezze Rive A Colmaer. Ormolu mantel clock entitled "L’Etude et La Philosophie", This clock was an enormously successful and popular model in the late 18th Century. It derives from a drawing in a catalogue produced by François Rémond, circa 1785, which incorporates figures designed and supplied to the Sèvres factory for reproduction in biscuit porcelain by the sculptor Simon-Louis Boizot.
The clock is comprised of a circular white-enamelled dial with Roman hours and Arabic quarter marks. Pierced gilt hands. The movement strikes the hours and half hours and 15 munutes. The circular drum case rests on a plinth, the front of which is set with an ormolu panel chased with cherubs playing , it is surmounted by an eagle and flanked by patinated bronze figures personifying Philosophy and Study (’La Science’ and ’L’Etude’), The clock rests on six circular gadrooned feet .

Three virtually identical clocks are in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace. A fourth is at Versailles (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 295, figs. 4.17.5 and 4.17.6.); other clocks of this model are in the Swedish Royal Collection and in the Spanish Royal Collection.