STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
Property from the Collection of Bernard & Josephine Chaus
A LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE PENDULE A CERCLES TOURNANTS, CIRCA 1780
Auction Closed
October 25, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of Bernard & Josephine Chaus
A LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE PENDULE A CERCLES TOURNANTS, CIRCA 1780
signed Cronier A PARIS above minute ring; the bell-striking movement with outside count wheel and silk suspension to the anchor escapement
height 26 in.; width of base 10 in.
66 cm; 25.5 cm
Bernard Steinitz, Paris
Antoine Crosnier (1732-d. after 1806) signed his dials Cronier or Crosnier and was the son of the menuisier Charles Crosnier. He became a maître-horloger in 1763 and set up his workshop in the Rue Saint-Honoré, and his clients included the Maréchal de Choiseul-Stainville, the Marquis de Sainte-Amaranthe, Prince Belosselsky-Belozerky, the Duc des Deux-Ponts and M. Sollier.
A clock of comparable design with a case by the bronzier Robert Osmond after a design by Gilles-Paul Cauvet is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française (Paris 1997), p.284 Fig. C.