"Pendule à la gloire du roi", a fine Louis XV style gilt-bronze mantel clock Paris, circa 1890

the black and white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, inscribed Thiout L'Ainé / A PARIS, the twin train movement by Étienne Maxant and numbered 15476 10.6.

In very good condition, well cast. Traces of dirt to crevices. As visible in the catalogue illustration, there is a chip under the number 15 in the enamel dial.
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The original clock was made expressly for the Cabinet du Conseil at Versailles in 1756 and celebrates the Glory of France comemorating the previous reign of The Sun King, Louis XV. Its full title was "La France gouvernée par la sagesse et couronnée par la Victoire qui accorde la protection aux arts"  (France governed with wisdom and crowned by the victory which gives protection the the arts). The original movement was made by Jean Martinot, the casting and possibly the chiseling by Edmé-Jean Gallien and the gilding by Gobert. The original clock, which was on loan from the Château de Versailles, is shown in a line engraving in the Exposition rétrospective de L'union centrale des arts décoratifs, Paris 1882, De Champeau & Others, 'Les arts du bois,' pub. Quantin, 1883, p. 18.

Etienne Maxant was located at 4 Rue Saintonge, Paris between 1880 and 1905 and is known to have supplied movements to most of Francois Linke's long case clocks.

A similar example cast by Jules Graux was sold at Sotheby's New York, April 19, 2007, lot 31, for $102,000.

This celebrated model is published extensively. See:

Tardy, French Clocks the World Over, Part One, p. 279;

H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol. I, p. 130, fig. 2.8.21

P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, p. 303, fig. 335, for illustrations of the 18th century model by Gallien.

D. Alcouffe et al., Gilt Bronzes in the Louvre, p. 296-297, for a 19th century model by Charles Crozatier, in Napoléon III's apartments in the Louvre.