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EMPIRE STYLE CLOCK After Claude Galle (1759-1815) In chased and gilded bronze, the white enamelled dial bearing a signature "Galle/ Rue Vivienne à Paris/ Thomas Hger", inscribed in a milestone flanked by a figure of Apollo playing the lyre, the base adorned with a bas-relief illustrating Apollo's chariot drawn by four horses among clouds, the claw feet H.:72 cm (28 ¼ in.) l.:48 cm (18 ¾ in.) P.:25 cm (9 ¾ in.) Bibliography: P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Âge au XXe siècle, les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1997, p.404, fig. B. An Empire style gilt-bronze mantel-clock, after Claude Galle (1759-1815) A clock of the same model, the dial signed "Lepaute et Fils", is kept in the collections of the Pitti Palace in Florence. (cfr. M. Gay, "Horlogerie Florentine", Bulletin de l'Association Nationale des Collectionneurs et Amateurs d'Horlogerie Ancienne et d'Art, Paris, autumn-winter 2010, n° 119, p. 5-20). A second example, with a slight variation in the bas-relief of the base, sold in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, on December 4, 2019, lot 254.

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EMPIRE STYLE CLOCK After Claude Galle (1759-1815) In chased and gilded bronze, the white enamelled dial bearing a signature "Galle/ Rue Vivienne à Paris/ Thomas Hger", inscribed in a milestone flanked by a figure of Apollo playing the lyre, the base adorned with a bas-relief illustrating Apollo's chariot drawn by four horses among clouds, the claw feet H.:72 cm (28 ¼ in.) l.:48 cm (18 ¾ in.) P.:25 cm (9 ¾ in.) Bibliography: P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Âge au XXe siècle, les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1997, p.404, fig. B. An Empire style gilt-bronze mantel-clock, after Claude Galle (1759-1815) A clock of the same model, the dial signed "Lepaute et Fils", is kept in the collections of the Pitti Palace in Florence. (cfr. M. Gay, "Horlogerie Florentine", Bulletin de l'Association Nationale des Collectionneurs et Amateurs d'Horlogerie Ancienne et d'Art, Paris, autumn-winter 2010, n° 119, p. 5-20). A second example, with a slight variation in the bas-relief of the base, sold in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, on December 4, 2019, lot 254.

For sale on Wednesday 10 Jul : 14:00 (CEST)
paris, France
Artcurial
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