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A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK 'L'AFRIQUE' ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN SIMON DEVERBERIE, CIRCA 1795 The arched frame supporting the drum case with figural surmount depicting a seated figure emblatic of Africa with bow and arrow and flanked by a cheetah and a turtle, the white enamel dial with Roman hours and Arabic fifteen minute markers, gilt arrow hands, the twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike to bell, on paw feet, the rectangular plinth applied with bas-relief plaques depicting cavorting putti 24 ? in. (62.2 cm.) high; 16 ? in. (42 cm.) wide; 5 ? in. (14 cm.) deep
'L'Afrique and 'L'Amerique' were two of the most popular case designs by the Parisian clock-maker and marchand mercier Jean Simon Deverberie (1764-1824). Two different case designs were used by Deverberie for these models, the more common swept oval base and the present arched type with aperture for his distinctive pendulums such as the present pierced figural type. The 'L'Amerique' design, signed and dated No.12 Deverberie due trois Pluviose an Sept (1799)', is in the cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.