Description
Covered Medici vase clock with skeleton movement with date in chased bronze, gilded and burnished, the annular dial in white enamel with Arabic numerals in black for the hours and minutes and in red for the date, signed (wear, accidents to the enamel), framed by falls of foliage and flowers tied at the top and presenting a mask of Mercury in the lower part. The handles are formed of women draped in the antique style. The mobile lid decorated with palmettes is topped by a seed. The quadrangular base is made of sea green marble (chips in the marble) with friezes of hearts, pearls and olives, palmettes and masks, supported by four flattened ball feet. Signed RIDEL in Paris. Empire period. Height : 54 cm 54 cm - Width : 18 cm - Depth : 18 cm Note : Laurent Ridel, clockmaker installed in rue des Ours in 1800, collaborated for the cases of his clocks with the bronze makers Feuchère and Denière, and with the enamellers Coteau and Merlet for his dials. Active since the end of the 18th century, he delivered a clock for Mesdames de France at the Bellevue castle in 1789. The paternity of our clock is traditionally attributed to the bronziers Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843) or Claude Galle (1759-1815), we note that a drawing of our clock is reproduced in Le Recueil de La Mésangère, Collection de meubles et objet d'art de 1807, pl. 22. A clock similar to the movement, signed Lepaute, was delivered on August 23, 1806 to the Château de Fontainebleau for the "appartement doré n°1. cours ovale". The François Duesberg Museum, Belgium, holds two similar clocks signed Folin and Devillaine. Bibliography : J-P Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris 1989, p. 81. P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 327, fig. C. Expert : Mr Cédric HENON, 06 95 34 93 78, [email protected]
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Covered Medici vase clock with skeleton movement with date in chased bronze, gilded and burnished, the annular dial in white enamel with Arabic numerals in black for the hours and minutes and in red for the date, signed (wear, accidents to the enamel), framed by falls of foliage and flowers tied at the top and presenting a mask of Mercury in the lower part. The handles are formed of women draped in the antique style. The mobile lid decorated with palmettes is topped by a seed. The quadrangular base is made of sea green marble (chips in the marble) with friezes of hearts, pearls and olives, palmettes and masks, supported by four flattened ball feet. Signed RIDEL in Paris. Empire period. Height : 54 cm 54 cm - Width : 18 cm - Depth : 18 cm Note : Laurent Ridel, clockmaker installed in rue des Ours in 1800, collaborated for the cases of his clocks with the bronze makers Feuchère and Denière, and with the enamellers Coteau and Merlet for his dials. Active since the end of the 18th century, he delivered a clock for Mesdames de France at the Bellevue castle in 1789. The paternity of our clock is traditionally attributed to the bronziers Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843) or Claude Galle (1759-1815), we note that a drawing of our clock is reproduced in Le Recueil de La Mésangère, Collection de meubles et objet d'art de 1807, pl. 22. A clock similar to the movement, signed Lepaute, was delivered on August 23, 1806 to the Château de Fontainebleau for the "appartement doré n°1. cours ovale". The François Duesberg Museum, Belgium, holds two similar clocks signed Folin and Devillaine. Bibliography : J-P Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris 1989, p. 81. P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 327, fig. C. Expert : Mr Cédric HENON, 06 95 34 93 78, [email protected]
