LOUIS XVI PERIOD PAGODA CLOCK In white marble, chased and gilt bronze, the dial signed "Festeau / A PARIS" inscribed in a pagoda surmounted by a seated Chinese holding an umbrella, supported by four uprights with twisted flutes, the edges of the roof highlighted with chimeras, The white marble base is encircled by an openwork gallery and adorned in the centre with a biscuit figure from the Manufacture de Locré from the second half of the 18th century depicting two Chinese figures, resting on spinning top legs. A later moiré upholstered base is attached; minor accidents H. 66 cm (26 in.) l. 28.5 cm (11 ¼ in.) P. 21 cm (8 ¼ in.) A Louis XVI gilt-bronze, Locre biscuit porcelain and white marble pagoda clock This so-called pagoda clock is a very picturesque variant of the portico clocks popular under Louis XVI. It reflects the period's taste for chinoiserie, here reinvented and interpreted in a Western style. An identical clock was sold at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris on 5 December 1989. A second, with the dial signed Terrien, sold at Artcurial Paris on 15 December 2014, lot 70. A last one, from the collection of the County Museum of Los Angeles, with the same biscuit group under the canopy, was sold by Christie's New York, 19 May 2004 (see fig. 1), lot 319 (USD 47,800).