A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock, by Raingo Frères, Paris.

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock, by Raingo Frères, Paris.  The porcelain panels signed by Léonard Abel Schilt.  

The movement stamped 'Raingo Frères, Paris'.
The porcelain panels signed  'Schilt de Sèvres' for Léonard Abel Schilt.  
The reverse of the ormolu mounts stamped 'R F ro P F. 74'.

The twin train movement with Brocot escapement and suspension, sounding on a bell.  

Of impressive size, this fine gilt-bronze and Sèvres style porcelain clock is in the form of an ovoid shaped Bleu Céleste ground porcelain vase with hand painted reserves and gilt-bronze handles, surmounted by a seated putto and inset with a circular 4 1/2 inch porcelain dial with Roman numerals and Breguet hands; the vase flanked by seated  excogitative putti and raised on a plinth base mounted with finely painted porcelain panels of putti at play, above a guiulloche running pattern frieze and put down on flattened toupie feet.

Léonard Abel Schilt was a celebrated figure painter from the great Shilt dynasty of porcelain painters, active since 1818 at Sèvres. He is recorded at the national manufactory in the years 1877-1878 and 1891-1893. Schilt also maintained an independent atelier in Paris and was a noted Salon and Exposition exhibitor throughout the late 19th century.

French, Circa 1860.

Provenance:
Maison Leroux, Orchies, en région Nord Pas de Calais, France.

Maison Leroux was the home of Alphonse Henri Eugène Leroux (1866-1947) founder of the famous Chicorée  Leroux company.  Alphonse collected items related to Chicory as well as decorative arts and planned as early as 1904 to open a museum.  His sons, Alain (1907-1999) and Robert (1909-2000), turned this dream into reality opening the Leroux mansion as the Musée de la Chicorée Leroux in 1998 bringing together the wealth of Maison Leroux's collections.

This exceptional Sèvres Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Mantel clock can be seen in photographs of the interior of the house during its time as a museum.  The museum through financial constraints finally closed its doors in 2018. 

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