An important moulded, carved, gilt and cream-coloured... - Lot 313 - Thierry de Maigret

Lot 313
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An important moulded, carved, gilt and cream-coloured... - Lot 313 - Thierry de Maigret
An important moulded, carved, gilt and cream-coloured wood floor regulator; the case in sheath with fluted panels and scrolled heads supporting garlands of flowers; the head with a large ribbon holding laurel garlands; base in plinth with channels; side doors. The enamelled dial, signed "Les frères Goyffon à la manufacture royale de Bourg-en-Bresse", indicates the hours in Roman numerals and the minutes in Arabic numerals in increments of five. The sheath has a large rectangular dial indicating "Retard-Avance" (reported); the inner mechanism has a calendar wheel. 18th century (restorations to the decoration and modifications to the clockwork). H : 250 - W : 63 - D : 30 cm The original composition of this important floor regulator seems to testify, on the one hand, to the influence of certain neoclassical projects of Parisian ornamentalists of the last third of the 18th century, and on the other hand, to a more or less direct influence of contemporary models developed by certain Germanic and Swiss clockmakers. The craftsmen who worked on it, the Goyffon brothers, were certainly trained in the workshop of their father, the clockmaker Philibert Goyffon; thus, the three brothers Marie-Albert, Antoine and Joseph, are mentioned as apprentices at the Manufacture of Bourg-en-Bresse from 1763 to 1778 and made a tender for the maintenance of the town clock around the same time (see Tardy, Dictionnaire des horlogers français, Paris, 1971, p. 269). 4000/6000 €
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