Ref: 2184
Pendulum Clock "au bon sauvage" "Sailor
Ref: 2184
Pendulum Clock "au bon sauvage" "Sailor
Circa 1805 - 1810
Gilded Bronze
365 x 30 x 11 cm (143³/₄ x 11³/₄ inches)
Paris, France
Gilded Bronze
365 x 30 x 11 cm (143³/₄ x 11³/₄ inches)
Paris, France
Literature:
Dominique and Chantal Fléchon, “La pendule au nègre”, in Bulletin de l’Association Nationale des collectionneurs et amateurs d’horlogerie ancienne, Spring 1992, n° 63, p. 43La Pendule Francaise dans le Monde, Paris, 1987, vol. II p. 250
Catalog ilustrado del Museo de Relojes, 1982, Andrès de Ribera Foundation in Jerez de la Frontera, p. 37 Fig.
Musée François Duesberg, Arts décoratifs 1775-1825, Bruxelles, 2004,
p. 66 Fig.
Hans Ottomeyer/Peter Pröschel, Gilded Bronzes, 1986, p. 381, pl. 5.15
Description: Anchor escapement, half-hour strike on bell
Gilded and black patinated bronze, later whistle
Octagonal base on barrel feet with putti as merchants in relief. On top, a standing figure rests on packaging with an embedded clockwork, next to an anchor, barrel, and paddle, the attributes of trade. The clock corresponds to a drawing in the album Le 30 of the Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, inscribed "Michel, no. 120 aoust 1808 du depot legal.
Gilded and black patinated bronze, later whistle
Octagonal base on barrel feet with putti as merchants in relief. On top, a standing figure rests on packaging with an embedded clockwork, next to an anchor, barrel, and paddle, the attributes of trade. The clock corresponds to a drawing in the album Le 30 of the Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, inscribed "Michel, no. 120 aoust 1808 du depot legal.
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