Restoration-period chased-gilt bronze CHEMINEE HANGER by Lou - Lot 267

Restoration-period chased-gilt bronze CHEMINEE HANGER by Louis-Stanislas LENOIR-RAVRIO featuring Apollo, his lyre embellished with a putto shooting arrows. The dial, signed Le Maur rue Saint Antoine in Paris, is enameled and guilloché, set in a terminal. The terrace is embellished with a trophy of muisk instruments, swan, arrows and roses. H: 53 cm (missing lyre strings, damping torch and pendulum). Louis-Stanislas LENOIR-RAVRIO was the partner and heir of the famous bronze-maker André-Antoine RAVRIO (1759-1814), whose business he took over on his death. Bibliography: an identical clock is reproduced in Pierre KJELLBERG's Encyclopédie de la pendule française on page 405.