Lot 1044* - A211 Glamour and Sophistication: Luxury in 19th-Century Paris - Thursday, 28. November 2024, 10.00 AM
MANTEL CLOCK “AUX DEUX GRÂCES”
Louis XVI style, Paris, 19th century. The movement signed Charpentier F(abrican)t de bronzes 14 à Paris.
Bronze, chased and punched, and matte and polished gilt. Urn-shaped case adorned with laurel and bows, with an applied figure of Eros with quiver and bow, carried by two graces, on a retracted base with a central medallion and foliage on both sides, on round feet with acanthus leaves. Enamel dial with Arabic hours and minutes. Open-work gilt bronze hands. Parisian movement with half-hour strike (pendulum and bell missing). The movement stamped Japy Frères & C. Expt 1855 Med d'honn and numbered 44. Freestanding.
36 × 19 × 82.5 cm.
The movement needs to be checked.
Charpentier & Cie, later also known as Lemerle Charpentier, was a clockmaker company operating in Paris until 1890. The company Japy Frères & Cie, operating in Beaucourt, became known, among other things, for manufacturing clock blanks on a large scale and as a factory from 1810.
An almost identical mantel clock was offered by Bonhams on July 10, 2014, lot 181.
Literature:
H.L. Tardy: Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français. Paris 1972, pp. 123, 325.
Charpentier & Cie, later also known as Lemerle Charpentier, was a clockmaker company operating in Paris until 1890. The company Japy Frères & Cie, operating in Beaucourt, became known, among other things, for manufacturing clock blanks on a large scale and as a factory from 1810.
An almost identical mantel clock was offered by Bonhams on July 10, 2014, lot 181.
Literature:
H.L. Tardy: Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français. Paris 1972, pp. 123, 325.
CHF 15 000 / 25 000 | (€ 15 460 / 25 770)
Sold for CHF 12 500 (including buyer’s premium)
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