The Ehlen Collection - Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung
The Ehlen Collection - Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung
A Meissen Clock Case, Circa 1740 | Ein Meissen Uhrengehäuse, um 1740
No reserve
Lot Closed
March 6, 03:44 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
of rococo form, with a shell and foliate scroll silhouette, surmounted by a figure group of Venus and Cupid, the moulded panels painted with scenes of Watteauesque figures in landscapes, the front panel below a garland of flowers, reserved on gilt diaper, the shoulder gilt with large foliate scrolls, with enamel dial, impressed numeral 28 to rear of clock case, the white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, the 18th century fusee-and-chain movement with verge escapement, silk suspended pendulum and outer countwheel striking on a bell, the backplate signed Le Roy/a/Paris; together with a Rococo style painted and gilt carved wooden bracket (2)
Height of clock case 15 3/8 in.
39 cm.
Height of bracket 11 1/32 in.
28 cm.
Horst Reber, Eine Rheinische Porzellan-Sammlung, Darmstadt, 2006, Vol. I, cover, pp. 154-55
A similar clock case from the collection of Giuseppe Rossi was sold at Sotheby's London, 10 March, 1999, lot 494; and another, with a stand, from the collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke was sold at Sotheby's New York, 26 September, 1989, lot 99.
Cranfield University used non-invasive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected, a result consistent with 18th century manufacture.