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Pendule squelette d'époque Louis XVI Two-tone fire-gilt bronze, white marble, glass. White enamel chapter ring, two sawn gilt hands, one blued with arrow to indicate the days of the month, another for the central second hand. Pendulum movement with knife-edge suspension and scissor movement, half-hour strike on bell. Signed "Gavelle Le Jeune AParis" on the dial. Restored, working. 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, Gilded bronzes. Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, vol. I, Munich 1986, fig. 4.6.25, a similar clock in the Palace of Versailles with the work of 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.
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Pendule squelette d'époque Louis XVI Two-tone fire-gilt bronze, white marble, glass. White enamel chapter ring, two sawn gilt hands, one blued with arrow to indicate the days of the month, another for the central second hand. Pendulum movement with knife-edge suspension and scissor movement, half-hour strike on bell. Signed "Gavelle Le Jeune AParis" on the dial. Restored, working. 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, Gilded bronzes. Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, vol. I, Munich 1986, fig. 4.6.25, a similar clock in the Palace of Versailles with the work of 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.
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