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Lot 882 Dα

A Parisian Louis XVI skeleton clock

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 16:00 - Decorative Arts Furniture
Estimate: 9.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 12.600 € (incl. premium)
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A Parisian Louis XVI skeleton clock

Bronze, fire gilt in two colours, white marble, glass, white enamel dial, pierced and gilded hands, a blued arrow to show the months, another as the central second. Pendulum movement with scissor escapement. Half-hourly striking on a bell. Signed "Gavelle Le Jeune AParis" on the dial. Restored, in working order. H 58.5, W 28.5, D 12.5 cm.
Paris, Maurice-Jacques Gavelle (Gavelle le Jeune), 1780s.

Literature

Illustrated in Niehüser, Die französische Bronzeuhr. Eine Typologie der figürlichen Darstellungen, Munich 1997, fig. 1239.

Cf. Ottomeyer/Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen. Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, vol. I, Munich 1986, fig. 4.6.25, a similar clock in the Palace of Versailles with a movement by Manière.

Cf. Tardy, Les plus belles pendules françaises, Paris 1994, p. 83, two very similar clocks, one of them with a movement by Louis-Michel Harel in the Musée des arts décoratifs Paris.

Cf. Wannenes/Wannenes, Les plus belles pendules françaises De Louis XIV à l'Empire, Florence 1999, p. 255.