Saint-Sulpice, l'écrin d'un collectionneur
Saint-Sulpice, l'écrin d'un collectionneur
A Louis XVI white marble, gilt and patinated bronze mantel clock, circa 1780
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
the patinated bronze Cupid indicating the hours, the base with a blue Turquin marble decorated applied with allegories of the rivers, the movement replaced circa 1870 ; (the cover restored)
Haut. 70 cm, larg. 26 cm;
Height. 27 1/2 in, width. 10 1/4 in
Tardy, La Pendule française dans le monde, Vol. II, Paris, 1994, p. 90.
Related literature
G. De Bellaigue, Waddesdon Manor Catalogue: James A. De Rothschild Collection: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, London, 1974, p.114, fig. 20.
A similar clock is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York (inv. 29.180.4). The movement is signed by Jean-Baptiste Lepaute, the figures are attributed to Louis-Simon Boizot, and the bronzes to Pierre-Philippe Thomire.
A very similar pair of vases forming a clock and calendar is in Waddesdon Manor (WI/27/6), signed by Doublet and based on his models, with bronzes attributed to Pierre Gouthière. It shares with the Metropolitan Museum version a detailed cornice and similar bronze plates. The similarity between these two versions and the signature of Pierre-Louis Doublet on the Waddesdon Manor copy could indicate that he was the creator of this model of clock known as à cercles tournant.
Other clocks based on the same model are known from the 19th century, such as a smaller version by Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley and a clock in red marble and gilt bronze plates representing the Arts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Inv. No. 1914-20).
A very similar pair of vases forming a clock and calendar is in Waddesdon Manor (WI/27/6), signed by Doublet and based on his models, with bronzes attributed to Pierre Gouthière. It shares with the Metropolitan Museum version a detailed cornice and similar bronze plates. The similarity between these two versions and the signature of Pierre-Louis Doublet on the Waddesdon Manor copy could indicate that he was the creator of this model of clock known as à cercles tournant.
Other clocks based on the same model are known from the 19th century, such as a smaller version by Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley and a clock in red marble and gilt bronze plates representing the Arts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Inv. No. 1914-20).
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