lemerle-charpentier & compagnie A large silvered and gilt-bronze mantle clock Paris, circa 1880

modelled with the standing figure of Sapho, the dial signed CHARPENTIER & Cie./BRONZIER/ A PARIS RUE CHARLOT 8, the twin-train movement stamped CHARPENTIER/ FT DE BRONZES/A PARIS and numbered 402.

Overall in good condition with the usual minor scratches and tarnished areas consistent with age and use. Minor chips to marble edges. Silver tarnished and could be cleaned.
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The firm was located at 8, Rue Charlot, Paris, in 1860, and was later known as Lemerle-Charpentier circa 1870 to 1890. They exhibited mantle clocks, similar to the present lot, and other decorative art objects at the Paris Expositon Universelle of 1878, but the star piece of their stand was an impressive example of Piat's grande horloge, an example of which sold Sotheby's, New York, April 26, 2006, lot 105, for $329,600.