Louis XVI style gilt bronze mantle clock by Emile Robert-Houdin
A Louis XVI style Clock in gilt bronze decorated on each side by lion's muzzle and surmounted by a covered vase, supported by four scrolled brackets on a fluted base. The dial and movement are signed Emile Robert-Houdin son of Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-1871), which is the most famous French magician of the nineteenth century, considered as the greatest illusionist and magician of all time, he was a major manufacturer of automated mechanism and a watchmaker known for the mystery clocks whose mechanism is invisible. His son Emile has preferred to pursue a career of watchmaker instead of an illusionist in the shadow of his father's fame. He also wrote a treaty on clocks and watch-making.
Circa :1860
Dim: W: 10 in - D: 5,7in - H: 15,7in.
Dim: L:25,5cm, P:14,5cm, H:40cm.
Bibliography: P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, ed. de l'Amateur, p 188
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