Clock in chased bronze, gilded and painted... - Lot 322 - Thierry de Maigret

Lot 322
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Clock in chased bronze, gilded and painted... - Lot 322 - Thierry de Maigret
Clock in chased bronze, gilded and painted natural in the form of a horse supporting the movement surmounted by a vase holding garlands of roses. It stands on a terrace with a frieze of interlacing decorated with rhinestones and centered by a blue glass oval monogrammed and fleurdelisé. The movement signed Gille l'Ainé in Paris indicates the hours in Roman and Arabic numerals for the minutes by hands set with rhinestones and the bezel. Louis XVI period. The case is attributed to François Vion. H: 34 cm Animal-figure clocks with movements, which appeared during the reign of Louis XV, were exceptionally popular in the second half of the 18th century with the revival of the decorative arts during the neoclassic era. The clock that we propose is distinguished by the quality and rarity of its decoration, as well as by the knowledge of the preparatory drawing at the origin of its realization which is preserved at the National Institute of Art History in Paris (published in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Band I, p.180, fig3.7.8). Among the rare known clocks of identical model, with some variations in the decoration, we can mention: a first example, the dial signed "Poitevin à Lorient", which is reproduced in R. Mühe and Horand M. Vogel, Horloges anciennes, Manuel des cloges de table, des cloges murales et des pendules de parquet européennes, Fribourg, 1978, p.107, fig132; a second, formerly in the collection Diette, is illustrated in Tardy, La pendule française, 2e Partie: Du Louis XVI à nos jours, Paris, 1975, p.232 ; a third was part of the Rudolf Lepke sales in which numerous works of art from the former Russian Imperial collections were auctioned off (sale in Berlin, 12 February 1929, lot 87) ; a fourth was offered for auction at the dispersal of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis' collection (Sotheby's sale, New York, 23-26 April 1996) ; finally, a last clock of this type, the base signed "Vion", appeared in G an
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