Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée). Culture: French, Paris. Designer: Designed by François Joseph Belanger (French, Paris 1744-1818 Paris). Dimensions: Overall: 21 × 21 1/2 × 6 1/4 in. (53.3 × 54.6 × 15.9 cm). Maker: and Pierre Henry, called Henry Lepaute (1749-1806); Case attributed to Pierre Gouthière (French, Bar-sur-Aube 1732-1813/14 Paris); Movement by the workshop of Jean-Baptiste Lepaute (French, 1727-1802). Modeler: Possibly by Louis Simon Boizot (French, Paris 1743-1809 Paris). Date: ca. 1783.Capturing daily life in the French capital on the eve of the Revolution, the playwright Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) observed in Tableau de Paris: "Every chimney-piece has its clock; a pity, I think; a dismal fashion. Nothing is more dreary to contemplate than a clock; you watch your life ebbing, the pendulum ticks off each second that is yours only as it passes, and then is yours no more. Clocks are everywhere, in every room you see them, and apparently nobody finds them disturbi

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Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée). Culture: French, Paris. Designer: Designed by François Joseph Belanger (French, Paris 1744-1818 Paris). Dimensions: Overall: 21 × 21 1/2 × 6 1/4 in. (53.3 × 54.6 × 15.9 cm). Maker: and Pierre Henry, called Henry Lepaute (1749-1806); Case attributed to Pierre Gouthière (French, Bar-sur-Aube 1732-1813/14 Paris); Movement by the workshop of Jean-Baptiste Lepaute (French, 1727-1802). Modeler: Possibly by Louis Simon Boizot (French, Paris 1743-1809 Paris). Date: ca. 1783.Capturing daily life in the French capital on the eve of the Revolution, the playwright Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) observed in Tableau de Paris: "Every chimney-piece has its clock; a pity, I think; a dismal fashion. Nothing is more dreary to contemplate than a clock; you watch your life ebbing, the pendulum ticks off each second that is yours only as it passes, and then is yours no more. Clocks are everywhere, in every room you see them, and apparently nobody finds them disturbi

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