Description
Jean-André REICHE (1752-1817) after Mantelpiece clock called "au portefaix", formerly called "au nègre", in patinated and gilded bronze representing a young black man, bust and bare feet, wearing a hat, a gourd attached to his waist, gilded armbands adorning his upper arms, leaning on a sugar cane and carrying a cotton ball in which is inscribed the enamelled dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the quarters. It rests on an oval base decorated with two small baskets of fruit in which two birds are pecking and two palm branches between which a monkey is resting on a rope, resting on four small runners. Restorations, missing and worn to the gilding and patina, movement to be revised. First quarter of the 19th century H. 35 cm W. 26 cm D. 10,5 cm History and provenance : Estate of Madame la baronne J... and various, Le Havre, November 24, 1969, Lot No. 66, then by descent. This very famous clock model was made after a drawing by Jean-André Reiche (1752-1817), deposited in January 1808 and kept in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv.LD 4127). Comparative examples in public collections: - LA ROCHELLE, Musée du Nouveau Monde, MNM.1988.1.13., for an identical clock. Comparative examples in public exhibitions: - "Pendule au Nègre" St Omer Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin from April 29 to June 12, 1978 """"p.13 fig. 5 - De Noir et d'Or", clocks "au bon sauvage", Brussels, Royal Museum of Art and History 1993. - "La pendule à sujet" St Omer Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin from June 26 to September 12 1993 n°3. Comparative examples in public sales: - DE BEACQUE, Lyon, 14 March 2015, n° 229 - ROSSINI, Paris, March 20, 2018, n° 321 - OSENAT, Fontainebleau, 14 December 2021, n° 10 Comparative bibliography : - NIEHÜSER Elke, French Bronze Clocks, Munich 1999, Schiffer Ed. p. 149, fig. 240 - KJELLBERG Pierre, Encyclopédie de la pendule française, Paris 1994, l'Amateur Ed. p. 343, Fig D. Cabinet Artemis Estimations, M. Pierre Grignon Dumoulin, expert of justice near the Court of Appeal of Amiens, 06.09.83.33.29, www.artemisestimations.com.
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Jean-André REICHE (1752-1817) after Mantelpiece clock called "au portefaix", formerly called "au nègre", in patinated and gilded bronze representing a young black man, bust and bare feet, wearing a hat, a gourd attached to his waist, gilded armbands adorning his upper arms, leaning on a sugar cane and carrying a cotton ball in which is inscribed the enamelled dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the quarters. It rests on an oval base decorated with two small baskets of fruit in which two birds are pecking and two palm branches between which a monkey is resting on a rope, resting on four small runners. Restorations, missing and worn to the gilding and patina, movement to be revised. First quarter of the 19th century H. 35 cm W. 26 cm D. 10,5 cm History and provenance : Estate of Madame la baronne J... and various, Le Havre, November 24, 1969, Lot No. 66, then by descent. This very famous clock model was made after a drawing by Jean-André Reiche (1752-1817), deposited in January 1808 and kept in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv.LD 4127). Comparative examples in public collections: - LA ROCHELLE, Musée du Nouveau Monde, MNM.1988.1.13., for an identical clock. Comparative examples in public exhibitions: - "Pendule au Nègre" St Omer Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin from April 29 to June 12, 1978 """"p.13 fig. 5 - De Noir et d'Or", clocks "au bon sauvage", Brussels, Royal Museum of Art and History 1993. - "La pendule à sujet" St Omer Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin from June 26 to September 12 1993 n°3. Comparative examples in public sales: - DE BEACQUE, Lyon, 14 March 2015, n° 229 - ROSSINI, Paris, March 20, 2018, n° 321 - OSENAT, Fontainebleau, 14 December 2021, n° 10 Comparative bibliography : - NIEHÜSER Elke, French Bronze Clocks, Munich 1999, Schiffer Ed. p. 149, fig. 240 - KJELLBERG Pierre, Encyclopédie de la pendule française, Paris 1994, l'Amateur Ed. p. 343, Fig D. Cabinet Artemis Estimations, M. Pierre Grignon Dumoulin, expert of justice near the Court of Appeal of Amiens, 06.09.83.33.29, www.artemisestimations.com.
