158 - MATIFAT Charles-Stanislas, attributed to. Important Persian Orientalist table set from the Restoration period—mid-19th century—based on the model presented at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, comprising a large double-faced table clock and a pair of seven-branched candelabra in gilded bronze with polychrome enamel, made for the Ottoman-Persian market; the clock features two time zones, displaying the time in Paris and Iran. Two white enamel dials (with some imperfections), Arabic and Turkish numerals, openwork gilded brass hands; two-gear train movement, signed C. DETOUCHE Rue St Martin Paris No. 27101, case and candelabra in gilded bronze with interlaced, diamond-shaped, and arched relief decoration, enamelled in blue, white, and green; four columns topped with Ottoman turrets, central turret. Height: 75 cm - Width: 32 cm - Depth: 25 cm. (Signs of wear and damage; mechanism untested; requires servicing).

MATIFAT Charles-Stanislas, attributed to. Important Persian Orientalist table set from the Restoration period—mid-19th century—based on the model presented at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, comprising a large double-faced table clock and a pair of seven-branched candelabra in gilded bronze with polychrome enamel, made for the Ottoman-Persian market; the clock features two time zones, displaying the time in Paris and Iran. Two white enamel dials (with some imperfections), Arabic and Turkish numerals, openwork gilded brass hands; two-gear train movement, signed C. DETOUCHE Rue St Martin Paris No. 27101, case and candelabra in gilded bronze with interlaced, diamond-shaped, and arched relief decoration, enamelled in blue, white, and green; four columns topped with Ottoman turrets, central turret. Height: 75 cm - Width: 32 cm - Depth: 25 cm. (Signs of wear and damage; mechanism untested; requires servicing). One of the most prominent art casters in Paris in the mid-19th century, Charles Matifat (c. 1820–after 1875) was a student of the goldsmith Antoine Vechte. Around 1840, he succeeded his father as head of the family business, founded in 1820 on Rue de la Perle in Paris. As an exhibitor at the 1849 National Industrial Exhibition, he was awarded a silver medal. In 1851, at the Great Exhibition in London, he exhibited (No. 923 in the French section) “Clocks, chandeliers, and various bronze items,” to quote the official catalog.