A Louis XV patinated and gilt-bronze mounted tinted horn mantel musical clock, with crowned C, circa 1750, attributed to Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 EUR

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Description

the musical case with green tinted horn decorated with rocaille and a basket of flowers; the enamel dial signed N BAPTISTE / BAILLON surmounted by a heron and a dog, with dragon-shaped hands; the mounts stamped with a crown C; (some tinted horn missing; wear to the patina of the bronze)

Height. 27 in, width. 19 1/2 in, depth. 9 1/2 in ; Haut. 68,5 cm, larg. 49,5 cm, prof. 24 cm

Count Frédéric Pillet-Will, Paris (1837-1911);

Frédéric Pillet-Will, Paris (1873-1952: by descent from the above);

Countess Madeleine Marie Hélène Henriette de Pimodan (born Pillet-Will, by descent from the above);

Countess Claude de Pimodan, Paris (1927-2022: by descent from the above);

Thence by descent to the present owner.

Ex. cat., Oudry's Painted Menagerie, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2007.

D. Alcouffe et al., Les bronzes d'ameublement du Louvre, Dijon, 2004, n° 34, p. 78.

J-D. Augarde, « Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain, Bronzier », L'Estampille, décembre 1996.

H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, vol II, Munich, 1986, p. 123, fig. 2.8.3.

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