Lot 1251* - A202 Decorative Arts - jeudi, 22. septembre 2022, 10h00
MANTEL CLOCK WITH DATE
Louis XVI, Paris ca. 1780. Movement and dial signed Meyer à Paris (probably François Meyer, maître 1771-1789). The case is probably by Robert and Jean-Paptiste Osmond, Paris.
Finely chiseled and punched, matte and polished gilt bronze. White enamel dial in a laurel-wreath frame. The date is indicated by a horizontal, turning enamel ring. Parisian movement, striking the 1/2-hour on bell. 1 key.
16 × 16 × 36 cm.
The same model of the clock on offer, but without the date function, and with the case signed Osmond from the Collection Pascal Izarn is depicted in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris 1997, p.185. Another clock with the movement by Gudin à Paris, from the Collection of the Stockholm Palace is depicted in Ottomeyer/Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, Vol. 1, p. 194. The design corresponds essentially to Illustration No. 53 of the "Livre de dessins" and is designated to be by Osmond. However, that model is crowned by a pair of doves, instead of the vase in the model on offer, just like a clock from the Sauvage Collection, depicted in Tardy, La pendule française, 2me Partie, Du Louis XVI à nos jours, Paris 1969, p. 258.
Gilding somewhat rubbed. Date ring dented.
Gilding somewhat rubbed. Date ring dented.
CHF 8 000 / 12 000 | (€ 8 250 / 12 370)
Vendu pour CHF 12 500 (frais inclus)